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Jan 05, 2015 Letters
Dear Editor,
You come across the most appalling idiocies and absurd asininities in this country and when you think you have seen it all, more come to shock you. It will never end once there is a country named Guyana.
Here is what the President’s daughter, Lisa Ramotar told this newspaper as carried in its January 3 edition. I am quoting from the news item; “…even though her father is the Head of State, she still does the same things she used to do before…these include jogging, baking goodies and also eating them.”
What an amazingly silly statement and it could only come from the mouth of a Guyanese. What Ms. Ramotar is simply saying is that as a child, when your mom or dad becomes president, then you stop driving the car you had before your parent acceded to the throne and you no longer do things like baking. Ms. Ramotar didn’t state what the other things are that presidential children cease to do when one of their parents becomes Head of State.
Included in this context is Ms. Ramotar’s assertion that she is different because she still does these things. And what is one of these things? Baking and eating the things that you put in the oven to cook.
Can anyone believe that a woman who says she is a qualified person with higher degrees and who currently occupies the chairmanship of the Gold Board can utter such nonsense? Is it true that when your dad or mom becomes Head of State, you as a child no longer bake things in the oven? And if the answer is yes, what would be the reason. According to Lisa Ramotar, it is because your parent is now the Head of State.
So when your mom or dad becomes Head of State, you no longer play with your pets; wind down your car windows yourself; turn on the television; yell out when the West Indies win a major cricket tournament; put your head through the window and ask your brother and his friends to lower the decibels; get up from the breakfast table to stop a faucet from dripping when no one else could be bothered; go to the magazine rack when you are in the supermarket? Oops! I guess according to the Ramotar doctrine, you no longer go to the supermarket when your dad becomes President
Let us correct Ms. Ramotar and one would assume that Ms. Ramotar may not have read the autobiography or memoirs of any female Head of State or children of Prime Ministers and Presidents. If she did, she would know that both many male and female Heads of State and their spouses enjoyed baking.
Many children of Heads of State learned to bake after their parents became administrative head of the country because the opportunities and resources were now there for them to learn to cook. I would suggest Lisa Ramotar as quickly as possible seek out one of these memoirs or autobiographies or even biographies. She would find out at least two female Heads of State used the oven with their children as helpers
I would like to hear what the other things are that children no longer do when their parent becomes President or Prime Minister. I am sure all Guyanese and foreigners in Guyana and Guyanese and beyond these shores would like to know what these actions are. I hope throwing common sense out the window is not one of them
Frederick Kissoon
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