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My government is locking me out of my country

May 21, 2020 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

Growing up my mother would lock me out of the house when I came home late and I would sleep near the door.
Editor, fast forward many decades and today I’m being locked out again. Now my government is locking me out of my country.
Like many of the citizenry of Guyana, I have been waiting patiently with the patience of the prophet Job to come home, to be let into my country.
What is more discouraging is to see other countries with far worse Covid-19 cases allowing their citizenry to repatriate.
For example, on May 19, in Jamaica, about 1,044 Jamaicans arrived in the country (Jamaica Gleaner, May 20).
Why is it that the citizenry is always treated like a “lappy-dog,” stepchild, and a refugee? Does our government not care about us?
Do they have no compassion for human life? Does our government realize that we’ll not forget how badly they treated us when we go to vote?
Does our government not love us? Is our government truly called by God to be in government? Are they government for the people and by the people?
Does the government want us to beg them to let us come home like I used to beg my mother to let me enter the house?
I deserved to be locked out of my mother’s house because of my disobedience. But do I deserve to be locked out of my country? How can the government justify locking me and thousands of its people out of the country?
To be honest with you, most people are more likely to die by accidents, domestic violence and homicides than by Covid-19.

Desperate Citizen

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