2017 review: Where do I begin?

Jan 04, 2018 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” – Anatole France
How do I prioritize the issues I have covered in 2017? There were so many vexations in 2017. Readers would say they expect me to highlight the negatives, but these negatives were unnecessary. They make Guyana the stupidest country. I am going to cite examples as my review of 2017 continues.
I have an ongoing email exchange with a friend who was my contemporary when I was a graduate student at the University of Toronto. He responded with an attachment of a road closure sign in Toronto that is still conspicuous, even though the road has been repaired. This was in response to my complaint that at Camp Road and Young Street, there is a warning sign telling motorists travelling west on Carifesta Avenue to turn south into Camp Street because Young Street is under reconstruction. That rehabilitation was completed three years ago. The sign is still there.
Days after, he attached a report on poverty in the US, and I forwarded same to the editors and publisher of this paper. His point to me is that I lament on things in Guyana that occur in North America too. I hit back at him by asserting that when I attended the University of Toronto, there were sixty thousand students, yet that place was like a paradise compared to UG.
I spent twenty-six years teaching at a university of a mere five thousand students, and saw how dystopian it was. Strangely enough, he replied to that email with the words; “I feel your pain.”
This is one of my good friends in Canada, and he means well, but after being so far and so long away from Guyana, he simply would not be able to fathom the nature of life here.
I will do a separate column on the 2017 telephone directory. It is a complete mess. Rewind the tape fifteen years ago and five times I complained in my columns about the incompetence in the compilation of the directory. When I show you what is missing from that directory compared to the one in 2014 you will be livid. This is in an age of high technology, where a high school boy can take the data and do a well-researched directory. How much deeper can we go in the sea of nihilism?
Here are the words in my reply to my friend in Toronto; “thanks for the info and your point is well taken and elegant, somehow I feel Canada will pull through, but we here don’t see changes on the horizon. Canada has its problems which you soundly highlighted, but Canada will continue to survive and places like Guyana will continue to beg countries like Canada; where is the future here Crommie? Peace my brother.”
This has been a long digression from my main assessment in this my first article that will look back at Guyana in 2017 and as noted above; I really don’t know where to begin.
There were two types of hurt I felt over a manifestation of social ugliness at the Eugene F. Correia Airport at Ogle. It occurred as 2016 was about to end, so I have included it in my review of 2017. It is not only the unnecessary exterminations of lovely puppies, but the fact that not one human being in Guyana raised a voice about that beastly descent into barbarism, despite photographs in the Chronicle of the dead puppies.
I was in Kaieteur News when this gold-miner came in with two of his staffers and explained how his dogs were saved, literally by minutes, from being killed. Mr. Glenn Lall, Adam Harris and the rest of the staff were angry after that man explained how they were killing puppies at the airport because of lack of documentation. This paper ran the story with photographs of the dogs and the three men. Not one minister offered a comment. I wasn’t surprised. I make no apologies for saying that philistines would not see anything wrong with murdering puppies
I hope my friend “Crommie” in Toronto will react to what is written here, and I wonder if he believes that would happen in Canada. I lived in Canada and I am telling Crommie that it would not have happened. This is God-forsaken Guyana, Crommie, where irrationalities have no limits. I will continue my review of 2017 and hope in the next column I will know where to start, because the Faustian waves that drowned Guyana in 2017 were huge. I will probably begin with the death of democracy at City Hall.

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