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Jul 07, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
Guyana is a beautiful country known primarily for its hospitality and friendly nature to its visitors.
This usual gesture to our visitors can now be questioned as a result of what transpired at the residence of the American ambassador on the eve of celebrating his country’s birthday by a leading figure head of the ruling administration, Ms Priya Manickchand.
The conduct of the Minister of Education acting in the capacity of Foreign Affairs Minister can be categorize as shocking, rude, disrespectful, undiplomatic and just plain stupid.
Her theatrical performance and utterances epitomized her ignorance or plain failure to exercise diplomatic norms/protocol and it has certainly place our country in yet another bad light regionally and internationally.
Ms Manickchand’s conscious verbal abuse and insults leveled at the outgoing American Ambassador at “his” farewell reception and his country’s celebration speaks volume and leaves much to be desire.
This behavior is a very clear representation of government’s disrespect for protocols and by extension the Guyanese people they claim to represent.
Why did the Minister behaved that way? Was she sent and ordered to do what she did? Is this a new persona she is trying to embody? First, that we know of, was her insult to Mr Jaipaul Sharma (MP), now the American Ambassador, who will be next?
As a Minister of government particularly of education, the eyes of the youths and future of the nation are always upon you because better is always expected and what was displayed was again shocking and certainly unbecoming.
Ms Minister, we are most disappointed in you, for we believe you know better.
Why such an attack on the ambassador whom most Guyanese would consider to be the most vocal, visible, involved, people oriented and arguable the best American ambassador to grace these sores. What wrong has he committed, done or as she puts it red line crossed? Is it his call for Local Government elections? If it is, then he has only repeated the calls made by countless Guyanese locally and abroad. The fact that foreign representatives have to ask government to honor its own constitution and provide its constitutional requirement for their own people, who have been denied of it for two decades, is what is most disappointing. And they have the audacity to call it “meddling” what a joke!
Is local government elections not our constitutional right? Does it not embodies what democracy is all about? If the answer is yes, then what is the problem?
Isn’t twenty years of denying the people of their constitutional right long enough?
The people of Guyana especially the young people are most desirous of having these long over due elections. We long to share in the decisions of our communities, townships and of government which will shape our lives. We want to participate and contribute towards our nation’s development but sadly, the oppressor to this will of the people, is our very own Government.
Enough is enough, isn’t it? Give the people what they want, give us our local government election. Life pun de dam deserves a change.
Jermaine Figueira
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