Let there be due process

Nov 27, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
I refer to Mr. Johnson’s letter in Stabroek News on the 25/11/2017, ‘There has been an Apparent Absence of any Clear Process of Dealing with the Complaints of BHS Students’. To my mind, Mr. Johnson’s allegations and rants at every level – at the level of the school, the Ministry of Education, and the Police – ought to fall early based on his own doing.
He has sullied the investigative process and helped support the suspicion that he has a personal interest in pursuing this matter. How else can one explain his incessant tirades since he first broke the story on Friday 17, November, 2017, and his lack of a mandate to pursue this issue?
Further, Mr. Jackson’s alleged wrongdoing is said to have been covered up by the present and immediate past heads of the school’s administration.
Without evidence, I smell libel and slander against those heads. It appears to me that Mr. Johnson feels he can say and do as he pleases without consequence. Indeed, if I were any of these persons, I would surely seek legal advice to address Mr. Johnson’s allegations against them.
As for the person at the centre of this imbroglio, Coen Jackson, from what has been told to me, Mr. Jackson has a Diploma in Communication and BSc. in Business Management from the University of Guyana. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Bradford (UK), and has been an outstanding teacher of Economics and Financial Services at The Bishops’ High School for over a decade, without a single degrading accusation or complaint lodged against him.
For this reason and more, he should be accorded the right to due process and consideration.
Yours truly,
Kevin Anthony

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