An Open Letter To The President Of Guyana

Feb 28, 2019 Features / Columnists, Letters

DEAR PRESIDENT DAVID GRANGER,
When I started to write this letter, I commenced with the salutation, “Dear Comrade Granger”. Then I instantly re-called that the word “Comrade” means “a companion, friend, or partner; a person who shares in, and contributes towards what another is doing”.
With the realization that very much of what you do, (which, I presume, reflects your beliefs), are counter and contrary to what I believe and up-hold, I proceeded to delete that initial greeting, and replace it with the above, more mundane and general written utterance, which, I am certain, best befits our relationship.
President Granger, I am shockingly appalled, and appallingly shocked (as so do millions of others throughout the mentally-stable world,) at the position you, and the supporters of your administration, have taken after the no-confidence vote was passed on December 21st, 2018.
The constitution of Guyana dictates, that after such a vote, the President must dissolve Parliament, and set a date for elections, which date should be “within three months, or such longer period…etcetera, etcetera, etcetera (and, I am certain you, of most people, know the rest)”.
The thing I find most troubling and perplexing is your Administration’s take on mathematics! I am no mathematician, but I do know a great deal of math; enough to challenge the average mathematician.
If you were to contact the teachers, (such as Mr. Ayube, Mr. Karran Persaud and Mr. Sahai) who instructed and guided me through my scholastic mathematical sessions, you will learn that, on several occasions, I was asked to leave the classroom in order to allow other students the opportunity to answer questions and attempt to solve problems.
I solved problems and proved theories (be they arithmetical, algebraic, or geometric) from top going downwards, bottom coming upwards, sideways going all around, and from several other angles and positions (if you get my drift)!
I was responsible for almost causing a geometry text book to be put out of circulation, while I was in high school, after I discovered that a theorem printed therein, based on ratios and proportions, was inaccurately expressed in terms of both the equation and formula.
All of that being said, I cannot begin to perceive or discern, through any kind of empirical method, how 33 is less than 32! Is that the kind of mathematics the APNU + AFC administration wants the Guyanese children to focus on? Is that the kind of nonsensical logic you want your teachers to instruct by?
Well, as a teacher who was Head of the Business Department at Charlestown Secondary School for several years, I can claim, with great certainty, that I have a pretty accurate idea of how teachers and students think. Thus, I wish to advise, with emphatic certainty, that most Guyanese students and teachers are right now laughing at your administration’s stupidity, inference, and expectations, with respect to the idiotic explanation for not accepting the no-confidence vote.
David, the world is watching and laughing. You have demonstrated a blatant and obnoxious disregard for your country’s constitution and legal system. You have shown absolute disrespect, disagreeable contempt and shameless disregard for the rule-of-law. More particularly, you have exhibited and evinced a shameful, callous, and somewhat inexplicable disdain towards the Honorable Chief Justice, in defiance of her reasoned decision.
You have disgracefully and shamelessly ignored obloquy from the public, including the Private Sector Commission and The Guyana Bar Association. And, interestingly, you have stubbornly chosen to ignore calls by international bodies, such as the United Nations and the European Union, to uphold the constitution, and to be respectful of “democratic procedures and the rule-of-law”.
Do the right and honourable thing. Be reasonable; be considerate; be fair; be respectful; show some class; listen to your (good) conscience; be an ex-army boss of the highest calibre. Do the legal thing. Do not take your country down the path leading to constitutional crises! Be Presidential!
May God bless you. May God bless the rest of us. May God bless Guyana.
Thanks,
Omadat Jagrup

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