GT&T shares and the Chinese connection

Oct 18, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
I read the write-up about GT&T shares and the Chinese connection, and was struck by the sentence “When the shares were initially placed on the market, GT&T employees had offered to buy them but this was rejected by the then government which was adamant that the shares had to be purchased en bloc.”
While in Guyana in the 1990s, I attended a political meeting and sat next to Mr. Christopher Ram and his wife, and at one point asked them why did not the Government sell shares to their employees? I think they were probably taken by surprise and could not answer. I am almost sure they would recall the moment. Now my question has been answered.
Incidentally, one of the most successful companies in Britain is run by share-holding employees.
Also, when I added together the disappearance of fibre cables, the building of the towering structure close to a well-known hotel, floors earmarked for casinos and other forms of entertainment, the top floors signalling other purposes, I instantly formed my own conclusions and made them known to the people in the communication business in Guyana. I think they too will remember this. I thought at the time “Mischief, thou art afoot………………….”.
A married chap once told me that “women have the sort of intuition that men do not seem to have.” I think the Government should pay more attention to what their women colleagues have to say. Their instincts are strong. Get rid of the attitude of “Don’t you worry your pretty little head”. In London, I said that to a boss, when I acted as relief secretary to him while his ‘regular’ was away for a week and he could not find an important and urgent document. He laughed his head off, when I promised to hunt it down. I did – successfully.
Geralda Dennison

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