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Aug 07, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
On Wednesday evening at around 7 p.m., on my way home, I turned into the Giftland OfficeMax complex to buy a photo album. The street from the Railway Embankment into Giftland is a very long road. It has about twenty street lamps that are very bright. I would say that street that leads from the highway to the mall is the most brightly lit roadway in this entire country.
On my way in, all the cars coming out had their high beams on. When I was leaving, I saw only one car with its normal lights. If you drive on that road in the night, there is absolutely no need to switch on your high beams. High beams blind oncoming motorists. The ignorance and stupidity were so appalling that you were ashamed to be part of a country that is so un-modern. There is no need for motorists to use their high beams on that road to Giftland. It makes no sense to use them because the pathway is illuminatingly clear because of the twenty street lamps.
So much of what are civilized, sensible values have been lost to the people of this land. I honestly believe that ninety-nine percent of vehicle-owners haven’t a clue as to when their high beams are to be used and the purpose of so doing.
What is horribly shocking, almost tragic is when you see who the fools are. They are people who are educated, have been educated in developed counties, and have lived in modern territories. Yet these people behave as humans who don’t have a sense of what is a modern way of behaving. Do you know in many European cities, the high beams are not permitted and traffic patrols would approach motorists and tell them to turn off their bright lights?
Is this country really doomed? When you see how people behave you wonder if this nation will not be forever a lost land.
I saw the stupid use of those excessive watts on the same day when the country was talking about the controversy where the City Constabulary fired three employees for being pregnant. Surely if the regulations said they couldn’t be pregnant within two years of their tenure then the person who signed the dismissal letter ought to be dismissed too for being a victim of Guyana’s backwardness.
You want to see how unacceptable this country is in a modern world in the 21st century, go to any court of law, whether in the magisterial or High Court level. A policeman, probably without the required five CXCs inclusive of Maths and English, is the sole judge of sartorial wear and aesthetic colours.
I accompanied Gordon April, one of my security detail during the 2015 election campaign, to the magistrate court for a landlord/tenant case. The 18-year-old policeman at the door told April that he could not enter unless he put his shirt into his trousers. April told him the design was meant to be worn outside of the pants. Any schoolboy could have seen that the shirt was of that type.
A policeman in the High Court was walking behind Leonard Craig of the AFC, all over the court, insisting that Craig put his shirt into his pants. Craig was wearing an Asian-type shirt-jac that the policeman never saw in his life and couldn’t understand that it was meant to be worn outside of the trousers.
Policemen and policewomen who cannot even spell some of the names in nature’s colour scheme arbitrarily decide what a loud colour is. I saw a woman in tears in the High Court after a policeman told her she cannot enter the courtroom. The woman had a case in front of the judge. You cannot seek redress from the judges. They say that is the jurisdiction of the Registrar.
I went to see the Registrar to assist the woman. That man is never there. I counted eleven times I went to see him over the asininity of the colour scheme. He wasn’t in office. The administrators of the courts cannot stop the presence of sewage in the High Court compound that has been flowing non-stop since 1973, but are fixated on what people wear.
Out of the hundreds of professions in this country, only people at the senior level who work in five of these professions are allowed to sign your UG pension form and your NIS pension form. The list excludes journalism, law, engineering, the military, nursing, business, computer experts, academics. Only five! Isn’t that a monumental act of asininity?
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