Latest update December 12th, 2024 1:00 AM
Vincent Alexander is disseminating fictions about me
Dear Editor,
Mr. Vincent Alexander has on the 24th and 25th April responded to the article on my grievances with the University of Guyana. Kindly give this letter the same prominence. Mr. Alexander should be congratulated and feel proud for directly and indirectly having caused myself and so many others to honour tuition debts to the government for education and training at the University. However, as an enforcer in my case, he is at his wits’ end to divorce himself from peddling half-truths about me.
He needs to reconcile with the fact that the memo which indicates that I had until 31st August, 2006 to discharge my indebtedness on the loan, emanated from the STUDENTS LOAN AGENCY OF THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE and not the University of Guyana. His assertion is simply not true. Editor, your newspaper has a copy which is also in the records of the courts.
When I approached then Vice Chancellor, Dr. James Rose, he advised me to make arrangements for payment and collect my results. There upon, I visited Mr. Alexander’s officer and during our discussions he told me to bring an initial three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00). I immediately left Alexander’s office, went to the Bursar’s and initiated discussions to pay the University because it was then that I learnt that of the monies sent by the Ministry of Finance to the University of Guyana, none was applied to my name. Mr. N. Rheka, then finance secretary, couldn’t explain the hiccup to me, but expressed his astonishment. Please note; that by email, I informed Dr. Rose of Mr. Alexander’s suggestion to bring three hundred thousand dollars. Copy of email attached.
Let me draw to your attention my dear, diligent reading public, that in Alexander’s office I saw my student file on his desk. I asked him to go through the file in my presence to see if there was a copy of any letter to me stating that fees must be paid to the University by student # 00/0850/0207. Mr. Alexander as Registrar is yet to say that I withdrew from the programme or was expelled from the University of Guyana. Suffice it to say he did not and to this day, cannot produce any communication to me for fees to the University. Yes, he speaks only about the loan, on which I had defaulted, and for excusable good reasons.
I wish to point out that I have copies of my registration forms for courses of studies in law for the academic years 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003. It is on these facts that the court could only have ruled that I am a student. Here is something I think will shock everyone who has been following this story. Mr. Alexander admits he was Registrar. He knew of my dilemma in 2003. Being desperate to become an attorney-at law, even at that stage, I decided to give it another determined effort. So, I applied to our University of Guyana to read law from the beginning in the academic year 2004-2005.
On the 30th day of April, in the year 2004, I received the following from the OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR:- “ RE: APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO UNIVERSITY OF GUYANA 2004-2005.With reference to the subject at caption, I regret to inform you that after CAREFUL consideration of your application for Admission to the University of Guyana in the academic year 2004-2005 you were not recommended for admission by the Faculty of Social Sciences to major in LAW on the basis that YOU DID NOT SATISFY THE BASIC ENTRY REQUIREMENT.”
Mr. Vincent Alexander tells the reading public at large that the University of Guyana has not WRONGED ME under his watch as REGISTRAR. The documents are all available to Mr. Alexander and the press. During March-April 2016, Mr. Alexander took to the press and wrote all manner of things about me, curiously when the Guyana Court of Appeal was engaged in hearing arguments in the now dismissed action 27 of 2014- University of Guyana v. Clairmonte Cox
I have always avoided erratic activism. So I drew to the attention of editors of our dailies (not any response to Alexander) that there were libelous statements published by me. One media house forwarded my concerns to Vincent Alexander and inquired into his assertions which they categorized as IMPRECISE. This was followed by a decent unreserved apology to me in that paper.
Clairmonte Cox
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