Taking note of the concealed distortions

Mar 18, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I have just finished reading ‘My Column’ on ‘ethinic dilemma’. I have to disagree with you on several of your concealed distortions.
Advertisements are placed and when suitable black candidates are not attracted/qualified the post is re-advertised lowering the qualifications viz a post that was readvertised in GECOM.
I know for a fact because I am in such a situation where it is considered a waste of time and effort to apply for positions in the public service. My son absolutely refuses to apply for anything advertised by the government. His rational – the PNC government has just done ethnic cleansing in all departments so what makes me think that they will now reconsider hiring Indians, those advertisements are not intended for us. Can you blame him? But you seem to have completely missed this rational.
On the problem of attracting Indians to the police force, you seem to have conveniently forgotten that the few who did apply were not encouraged to stay. They had dietary issues, not eating pork or beef and a few other complaints which do not readily come to mind. What has changed?
On the problem of the GDF, I distinctly remember an Indian recruit being beaten to death because he was accused of stealing one roll of toilet paper. Whatever became of those officers? A slap on the wrist if that much. You are in a better position to investigate these past incidents than I am. So don’t you dare write with tongue in the cheek about our children.
They come from a different culture. Unlike the black boys our boys (quite wrongly) are given preferential treatment to their sisters because they are perceived to be heir to the throne and our girls will not be sent to these organisations to be sexually harrassed as happened at the Opportunity Corp. Until this vast difference in culture between Afro and Indo Guyanese is recognised and treated appropriately then this constant bleating about who wants to be where will never stop. Maybe you should re-write this column highlighting the truth.
Hema Persaud

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