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Mar 28, 2010 Letters
Dear Editor,
I am appalled at the falling standards prevailing in Guyana. The widespread corruption, obscurity, and the high cost of living is deterring people from Guyana.
Yes, they will visit, enjoy the hospitality and feast on the largesse of those ‘selected few,’ and even go back home (away from home) and pen servile and fulsome letters in praise of the country and the government. However, the irony is that these people will not make Guyana their abode.
I think of Mr. Vishnu Bisram, Mr. Randy Persaud and Mr. Anand Boodram and how they consistently heap accolades on the land and the leaders, particularly Mr. Jagdeo and the PPP. Yet these ‘chaps’ would not come and live here.
What a paradox! So the three gentlemen (Bisram, Persaud, Boodram) would do well to stay quite, or silence the critics by coming and making their ‘abode’ here: live on the local salary, be stopped by the local policemen, etc. I am sure with their distinguished backgrounds in education, teaching positions can be filled by them.
I ask these few questions: How many of Guyana’s PPP’s elites visit the local medical specialists, raise their children here, etc.? And by the way, how can they afford all this?
I guess they are emulating the late Mr. Cheddi Jagan – only like it for the people and not for yourself. Until their dying days the Jagans praised Communist regimes but raised their children the American way.
As regards corruption, I disagree with Mr. Freddie Kissoon that ‘lessons’ and teachers involved is a positive (in the sense that he praised these teachers).
The lesson phenomenon is financially motivated. I bet, challenge, dare all and sundry to compare the incomes garnered from these teachers’ salaries with their lesson fees. The disparity is shocking.
The teaching profession is now the avenue to build contacts and recruit learners. This is so because like so many professions, the pay cannot offset basic necessities.
So the deliberate entry into the teaching profession and the strategic device of making sure that topics be left for after-school session must be seen from the financial and a survival aspect of life in Guyana. Need I mention why some people choose to become police and immigration officers, and in fact join the PPP ‘donkey cart?’
I recently watched as an immigration officer made a few purchases at a local store in Georgetown. She was very affective in her mannerism – uniform, shoe etc. The one thing that let her down was her use of the simple Guyanese English. It had the accent, but the
grammatical component was abysmal. Guyana, I dare say, is being run and ruined by the ‘booboisies.’ Quickly it dawned on me, that this is the nature of Guyana -‘duncing show offs’ all over the land.
Think of NCN and how mere caricatures are on display all the time. I tried to follow 98.1 Hot FM in the mornings, and I wonder about the ‘why’ the ‘who’ and the ‘what’ of the show. Is it now for just the ghetto club? Just a few Thursdays ago, I was ‘bombed’ for the ‘throwback’ was a let down literally. What are Guyana and radio turning to, a retrogression to ‘catch up’ with New York, Brooklyn and the Bronx? Well, if so be the case, the ‘throwback’ is doing a great job of it.
Whatever happened to good radio – informative, inspiring and on the whole salubrious? I get the impression that radio is infantile, immature and a place for personal indulgences of all kinds. I ask, can no one be creative and yet educational?
Just this week, and this was actually said twice by the announcer: “Trouper Taxi Services is…their customers…” I wonder if there is an Editor-in-Chief. If so what is wrong with the said construction? Also what are the correct ways of writing such a script? The parallels are found in this common advertisement: “GWI is advising their customers…” It is really a shame, and the poor, inept announcer does not know either, and even in reading this, I am sure all and sundry at NCN would still be at a lost.
Sometimes I try to follow Channel 11’s farcical interviews, and it seems the worst are being picked to do the job, or is this the way of nepotism, agitprop and barefacedness? I think so. How the lofty has become muddy! Save us God, for only you can!
Shane Rizwan
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