High praise for the new Government

Dec 05, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Permit me space in your letter column to ventilate my views on a couple of things.
It is said that the longest journey begins with the first step. It is also said that words and thought have moulding powers. So it is my conviction that if the first step in made in a positive way with positive thoughts the culmination of that journey will yield positive things, progress and propriety.
The Granger led administration is about eight months old, and to my mind they have made some positive step and as long as the positive steps are encapsulated by positive thoughts and actions positive results will be achieved. The rains fell very much on Wednesday 2nd December. I was out during most of that downpour, and I did not encounter any street being under water, it seems like hard work has yielded a measure of success, which will bring a small measure of relief to Guyanese.
On the down side there is an eye sore by South/ Lodge bus park every time it rains there is an area there that become a pool it needs to be looked at. Now for the core matter. I am in my seventieth years but I have never accepted persons calling me “Old Boy” I am engaged in construction work and give good account of myself among my younger associates.
Let us try to evaluate the word old. When you have something that is old what do you do with it? You will probably put it in a corner and forget it. An old shirt, it is a shirt you will not want to be seen with among friends. A old house you will not want to be seen in if your position is one of affluence and I can go an making that show that old represents unwanted, unsightly and discarded things that is what old represents.
I have been receiving pension for the past six years and the writing on the cover of the book, never sat well with me but I had to live with it “Old Age Pension Voucher” it was so outlandish. On Wednesday 2nd 2015 I braved the rain to go uplift my book; note never before did I leave my home on the first day to do this service for myself. But on that day, I braved the inclement weather to be there. On receipt of the book all the discomforts I suffered was annulled. The new name speaks volumes it shows vision it, show respect it tells you as a person how you are seen. The name “Senior Citizen Pension Voucher” speaks of people who have a place in Guyana’s society it speaks of belonging the name on the voucher speak of a people who are respected and are needed even just for the purpose of advice.
Thank God for a group of people that has shown vision, I hope and pray that that they are given the strength the knowledge and be humble enough to be given the knowledge to lead this country out of the doldrums it has been in for ages.
May God’s mercy continue to keep you guys to do what he will have you do. For his people!
Elder Ewart Small
ACDA Compound

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