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Yes, Guyana does not want its remigrants

Jan 04, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
It was with a sense of irony and much amusement that I read the letter titled “Does Guyana need its remigrants”? My own question would be “Does Guyana want its remigrants”? Because what we want and what we need are two different things.
My attempt to resettle in Guyana in the mid-1990s proved frustrating. Observing that many youngsters, at age 9 and over, could not read, some of them working, helping with light building work, I volunteered my services as a helper in any free classes being run to help youngsters with reading problems. I am still awaiting a reply to my letter to the Government. Which brings to mind the question ‘Can any leopard change its spots’?
What made me see the irony of the writer’s experience and caused me amusement, even to chuckle, was the statement that ‘’……every department or ministry …….. refers you to another. ………………. Each meeting ends with the remigrant being pointed higher up the pecking order”.   Lucky man, I thought.
This so reminded me of my attempts to get a telephone landline while here. The Guyana Commission in London advised me to approach the ‘top man’. This chap (now deceased) handed my letter to his secretary and told her to deal with it. No action. Then other well-meaning people gave me ‘influential’ names, who thereafter pointed me lower down the pecking order, until it stopped at the front desk, with “no lines available”.
I was once asked by a committee member of a public meeting whether I had got a telephone yet. When I said I had not, she said “they are expecting a jewel”. I left it at that and shortly after re-located to London.
When I related this ‘telephone thing’ to re-migrants to other Caribbean countries, holidaying in the UK, they were astonished – they all got theirs within a week – as a priority, hoping to see them settled quickly and help the economy financially !
One day…………..
Geralda Dennison

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