This Burnham Enigma

Jul 19, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

The undersigned was advised of the captioned submission in Kaieteur News of July 16, 2022, which appeared to suggest his being an idolater of Burnham – based exclusively on the factual report of the former instructing Harold Davis, Chairman of GuySuCo, and myself, Chief Personnel Officer in 1977 – a year after the nationalisation of the sugar industry – to erect a memorial to the historic Enmore martyrs. (Forbes now would have referred to Sonny (Shridath Ramphal) his classmate and Attorney General, and wondered about who was more enigmatic than the author of the article!).

Incidentally, it is somewhat misleading to refer to ‘Mr. John’s decades in the public sector’, overlooking the glaring evidence that the letter referred to was signed as repeated hereunder – a career that begun in the sugar industry in 1958. So that, not unusual, the critic’s extrapolations are in some respects inaccurate, compounded by the hasty misinterpretation that the aim of the submission titled “More Martyrs – Overlooked” was to assign Burnham to that category.
For what it is worth, the submission dated 23rd June was contained in three full letter-size pages – not quite as ‘short’ as the commentator discovered, after three weeks. Attention to detail is key, particularly when communicating publicly.

E.B. John
Retired Human Resources Director
BSE/GuySuCo

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