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Mar 30, 2017 Letters
Dear Editor,
I read Freddie Kissoon’s article, “My mom died at the Georgetown Hospital, Mr. Vyfhuis,” in Kaieteur News, March 28, 2017 and I agree with his description of the failure of Guyana going back so long ago and bringing it right up to the present. I whole heartedly agreed with him; I have read Freddie Kissoon for over 10 years and it appears as though he is always preaching to a block of stone. I saw the writing on the wall as a teacher, nearly 50 years ago and I have to confess, I ran. I did it for my family.
Firstly I went on vacation to the USA, then I compared my life with the good one I had in Guyana; my wife and I were both trained teachers, we were okay but it was like comparing ‘sapodillas to limes’.
I made a choice and stayed first in the USA then moved to Canada. I brought over my wife and my 4 year old son, the other one was born here in Canada. I worked and we sent our boys to the best University here in Ontario; now they are married and still around.
I couldn’t have done that, if I stayed in my beloved Guyana. When I travel all over the world and in Guyana, I see and know that I made a good choice. When I visited Guyana, all my friends, were sick, dying, or moved. I was a stranger in my own village where I spent nearly 30 years teaching. There was so much poverty with specks of prosperity, and when I looked closely those seeming to be prosperous had some contamination with either drugs, party corruption and seldom few were honest and hard working.
Freddie Kissoon is the only one who is fighting for the down trodden, the under-dog, and the little man. Burnham once said “The little man shall be a real man” it never happened. I hope Freddie Kissoon keeps it up. I am asking him to please keep it up. He is fearless and he calls a spade a spade. God Bless him!
N. Nauth
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