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Apr 14, 2011 Letters
Dear Editor
I smiled when I read the letter by Yuri Westmaas about President Jagdeo referring to Mr. Granger as “an old man”, because shortly after Mr. Jagdeo assumed office as President, a Guyanese friend sneeringly referred to him as “the boy President”.
Funny how the young seem to regard age as a disease, overlooking the fact that one day (hopefully) they will be the age they now disparage. With age comes wisdom and all-round knowledge, very useful in the right circumstances.
Young leaders in political life need the guidance of older states people, people who have seen it all before. The youngsters seem initially to be “in need of care and protection”, and the wise advice of their older predecessors would certainly come in handy.
I was pleased to see Mr. Westmaas’s hope that “leaders refrain from using personal attacks while on the hustings…” I well remember the shocking, wounding statement one political candidate made on the hustings in the lead-up to the 1997 general elections, about ex-President Desmond Hoyte and his deceased children. I was horrified, because I happened to know the truth about the matter – I had got it straight from the horse’s mouth.
I made a plea in print similar to Mr. Westmaas’s that the crude, hurtful statement should not be repeated.
I smiled again when I read another item about schoolchildren waiting on minibuses to take them to and from school. From the age of seven in the 1930s to age 11, I walked four times a day to and from St Phillips primary school on Smyth Street to my home on Fifth/Sixth Street Alberttown.
I had to get new shoes at least once a year but, en route, I ‘collected’ girls from other schools and we exchanged knowledge. We had to walk, because there was no alternative. Children have to learn to walk to school – at least once a day back and forth. At least child obesity should not then be a Guyana problem!
Geralda Dennison
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