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That UG bomb threat
DEAR EDITOR,
I use this opportunity to examine this very unfortunate and unforeseen danger that surfaced a few days ago (Tuesday, 5th February, 2019).
On the day in question, there was an apparent bomb threat. One would think that a University should be at least half prepared for an event of this magnitude or something to that effect. Even if they were not, they would have some sort of preparedness for dangers of fires, tremors, etc., all of what is somewhat synonymous to the bomb threat.
We should not go down the road of “we never had a bomb scare before” as an excuse gateway for the administration, because it will open up a can of worms all over the country, as we see many entities not prepared because of the above-mentioned fact.
Editor, on the day of question, not only was there no bomb squad in place, the emergency service response was generally poor with scores of students scattered about, all trying to exit the university. The back entrance of the campus can only facilitate one person at a time exiting and the front gate, well, you be the judge of how fast thousands can exit from that gate.
But as time progressed, you got to see how backward this country is: The Guyana Police Force sent a van with about 6 ranks to escort over 2000 students from campus; one fire truck came to the campus, which has over 15 buildings, imagine if 3 were blown! If that was the case, then here is the mad part, not one ambulance came to the campus.
We the students of this, sometimes great institution, demand answers as to who is responsible for events of this nature: who made the necessary calls requesting assistance and if that was done, why wasn’t an ambulance called in? I would like to make it known that students could have been injured exiting the campus. Who would have taken the timeout in the heat of the madness to assist? We demand answers!
Concerned Student
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