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Feb 15, 2020 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
Please permit me to make public my utter displeasure with the manner in which the executor of my late friend’s estate is handling the affair much to the displeasure of many; and to the discomfiture of his son who is to inherit the estate. My friend was a journalist who became severely disabled in later life. About fifteen years ago the bank won judgment over his home and he went to Brigadier David Granger a professional colleague of old for assistance, Mr. Granger promised to talk to the bank and offered him a contract to write the lead story for the Guyana Review Magazine. My friend asked me to perform the reporting roll for him free of charge so he could use the proceeds to pay the bank, I agreed and worked along with him during my spare time for the next twelve years until he fulfilled his obligations to bank and regained his home.
My friend, whose wife predeceased him by three years, died about fifteen months ago and left the pastor of the church he attended as the executor of his will. I met with the pastor as a friend close to the family and told the pastor that my friend’s son wanted to enter the University of Guyana when he turned eighteen. I told him that the deceased two other children were afraid that their younger brother could lose his estate since it was in arrears to the tune of $750.000. I asked the pastor if he wanted relatives and friends to assist with these payments so as to avoid further complications with the city council, and no definite answer was proffered. Prior to my friend’s death he asked me to meet with the president on his behalf to secure the subvention for the disability movement and I did which resulted in the moneys be released in a timely manner. About two years ago I again met with the president on his behalf and a motorize scooter was presented to him to aid in disability advocacy. Recently when I enquired from the family about the scooter that the President presented I was told by the lad that he no longer has access to the premises (his own home), the place where he resided when his father died. So like the scooter before it, this one is left to the elements of flooding in an unprotected bottom flat, and by the way, did I mention that the scooter cost four thousand US dollars?
As I found out, it is much easier to meet with the prime minister or president than to have an audience with this pastor. Close relatives and friends feel helpless as the estate depreciates. Meanwhile, the young man who has just turned eighteen told me that he works at nights and goes to university during the day. However, he is not doing very well academically because he is usually on the road at 3:00 a.m. trying to catch transportation after work to go to his sister’s home where he resides; clearly a life of suffering. He is bewildered as to why his house could not be rented to realize the much needed relief. I laid this matter out to the pastor on two occasions just as I’ve done here. I said “man Granger helped to save this property we can’t allow it to go down the drain through the non-payment of taxes”. He said “yes, yes, I know, I know”. However, these days no one seems to be able to meet or talk to “pastor” on this important matter.
Clairmont Featherstone
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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