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Guyana in 2016; Repulsive, repugnant, repellant

Jan 13, 2017 Freddie Kissoon

It is expected that confusion will arise at the airport in a country going through the throes of civil war. There will be a mad rush to get out, the immigration officials will be overwhelmed and papers will get lost. In Guyana in 2016, on a normal tropical day, with serenity and social cohesion in full swing, a diaspora family that had visited and was departing got driven into an emotionally draining situation.
Father checked in, son checked in, mother checked in. When it was time for the immigration official to return the mother’s passport to board the plane, he told her the passport was misplaced. This couldn’t be true given the space at the Timehri airport that immigration officials work with.
Where and how that passport could have been lost? Even if someone called him, he would not have left the security area and just go off far away. And if it was an urgent call, he would have left the mother to be attended to by one of his colleagues.
But that was not the most abominable dimension of this mystery. After failure to recover the passport, the surveillance cameras were checked. No results. Surely, this could not have happened. Those cameras have to pick up the transactions and movements of people at the check out counter at the immigration section.
The public interest wasn’t served by this devilish incident but not even one journalist asked President Granger on his Public Interest television programme what became of the investigation. Not even one journalist asked the Minister of Security (oops, sorry, Public Security) what eventually happened with the inquiry into this mess.
From a missing passport, we moved to killing puppies. It really was a year of angst in Guyana in 2016. Any human that could endure the vortex of madness of Guyana could live his life in a swamp and not feel uncomfortable.
A gold miner and two of his assistants came into Kaieteur News to relate a tale that you only find in the fantasy section of the National Enquirer. This gentleman lives in Guyana. Just as how I live in Guyana, this man lives in Guyana. His dog gave birth to four puppies. He took a plane out of the interior to bring the puppies to Georgetown to give his friends. If you saw these puppies, you would have begged him for one.
At Customs at Eugene Correia Airport (which I thought only serves incoming foreign passengers), Customs took the puppies, called in the vet at the Guyana Livestock Development Authority who accused the miner of having foreign puppies and decided to put the animals to death. The miner then chartered a flight to bring the mother to the airport. He told Kaieteur News that the puppies were about to be killed when the mother turned up.
To show you what a repugnant, repulsive, repellant country this hell hole of a country is, after Kaieteur News featured that story, days later more puppies were executed at the airport with the Guyana Chronicle highlighting the photos of the dead animals. One can conclude that there were some vexations at the publication by Kaieteur News and someone decided to show Kaieteur News the power he/she has.
This is Guyana of course, the worst country in the world. The Minister of Security (oops, sorry, Public Security) said not a word about the missing passport. The Minister of Agriculture said not a word about the executed puppies. The President said not a word about the many abominations and atrocities like these that took place inside his government in 2016.
The morbidity that really pierced my mind in 2016 was the three years of imprisonment a 65-year-old woman received from a Berbice magistrate for possession of one gram (yes, most definitely, one gram) of marijuana when she went to visit her grandson at the New Amsterdam prison. Come on man, she didn’t steal or kill or defraud anyone or use violence. Where was our humanity? But then again, that left Guyana many, many moons ago.

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