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Jun 07, 2017 Letters
Dear Editor,
Why am I not surprised to read that the drug culture has now taken root in Guyana big time? In 1983, a much younger Guyanese work colleague told me that she had spent her entire weekend helping her father prepare a small van to send to a relative in Guyana, so that the chap could sell ice cream to schoolchildren. The set-up cost slightly over £2,000.00 (two thousand pounds sterling), and the money was to be repaid over a period of time. I said nothing, but thought ‘fat chance’. I knew pennies from schoolchildren, even if collected every day, could take a long time to reach that amount.
I felt the sale of something other than ice cream had to be involved and thought “drugs” – a moving van was a relatively easy way to keep the product circulating, and I had already noted that Guyana was vulnerable to drugs – “the opiate of the people”. The drug habit is similar to that of alcohol consumption or gambling, and entire families may suffer the consequences if the chief breadwinner happens to fall victim. Strong measures need to be taken to try to nip it, if not in the bud, while in near bloom.
Geralda Dennison
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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