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Jun 17, 2017 Letters
Dear Editor,
As community activists, we get very little rest. Once one takes the torch to help others, one commits to giving up the luxury of own’s own time. You do it; I do it. I would appreciate if you would carry this letter so that some personnel in the General Register Office, particularly, would be informed that pushing around members of the public will not be disregarded by all who experience such crass treatment. I have an acquaintance who, on the strength of a written list of requirements for late registration of his birth, submitted three Affidavits plus other documents supporting his request.
He showed me the documents. (I have submitted the name but please do not print the gentleman’s name now because he is going back to the GRO on Tuesday to identify the Clerk who rejected his submission. We can name names after that.) When he went to the GRO on 8th June, he was told to get additional documentation, documentation which do not exist: paper from (?) hospital, baptismal certificate, etc.
These simply do not exist. This is a simple vendor and works hard to support his family. He is frustrated. Having provided ALL which GRO’s list required, some smart member of staff at GRO suddenly demands more papers! Or is it paper (money)? Is this how Guyana still works under this administration which promised to wipe out corruption? And I would so be bold to say that this individual’s case is not an isolated one. Members of the public get a hard time from Government officers just for the heck of it or for failing to “leave something”.
I know; I have experienced it and I hear of it every day from helpless folks. If a call-in programme is set up, the phone lines would just burn with horror stories of frustration and graft in Government agencies. Perhaps the Fourth Estate needs to do yet another service to Guyana and set up decoys to identify these vultures who prey on hapless persons.
I am asking that this man’s plight be published. I am not sure how you can articulate the facts herein. But the suffering public needs to be motivated by these exposés to fight the plague of bribery and corruption, and I do not know with whom else to join forces in doing so, but the Press. The gentleman himself is considering taking up the matter up with Minister Felix and I think that this open letter will certainly help his cause.
Charles Selman
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