Group,
Sutley
should be able to say whatever he
feels, however, raping Jagdeo's
wife is not the answer. I know there
are high tensions in the bigger islands between afros and
Indians and it must be addressed, so
therefore sutley should not be censured. Every
opinion counts whether it is approved or disliked.
I can
understand that the Government in
Guyana seems to be incompetent and is promoting Tourism and the
Cricket World Cup but is doing nothing to control the Bandits who
are terrorising the
Country.
I too
think that the words in the post is a bit too graphic but
one can understand & share the frustration & pain of the
victims as the genocide
continues. A point to note is that if this trend
continues unabated, then soon there won't be people of Indian
descent in Guyana. Because they will either be dead or they would
have left Guyana.
I agree with what you
say.
President Jagdeo wants people to return to
Guyana or to invest in the Country but his mis-management is having
the opposite effect.
All the people with money to invest are
going back to/to America/Canada as their Families are targets for
kidnappers.
He might as well join the Bandits as he
doesn't seem to be against them.
If he continues in his policies then there
won't be much of an East Indian population in that Country for much
longer, not too different from the Burnham days.
Its sad that we are discussing the hard
lives our Ancestors had and after more than 150 years nothing much
as changed, they might as well re-introduce Indentureship. !!
I believe that there similar problems in
Trinidad as well, a Country that used to be much more stable.
You
mentioned the situation in Trinidad. This is something
that is puzzling. Unlike Guyanese, Trinidadians are exposed to
higher education--access to UWI for a Trinidadian is like going to
UG for a Guyanese. For a regular Guyanese--UWI is a dream. There are
so many Indians in TT with PhDs etc and yet apart from their
degrees, they paddling up the same creek as Guyanese. Why is this?
With their
higher education--why do they still have to fight for
the same rights as their Guyanese counterparts? Most of the
qualified Guyanese do not stay in Guyana so there has been a
brain-drain as Dr. Martin Boodhoo termed it. The educated
Trinidadians are still in TT yet the same atrocities are being meted
out to them too...That they seem to be accepting it, I find rather
astonishing. We hear of no major opposition to racism meted out to
Indians in TT-- I am not talking about the politicians. I mean the
educated civic
Trinidadians--we hear of very few standing up for
Indians rights in TT .Why is this so? Are they comfortable with the
treatment of Indians in TT? Or is it that because of their status
and their insulated, secure lifestyle--they couldn't be bother about
the plight of the ordinary Indians ketching their asses for a
living?
For those who are too young to know--Burnham
destroyed the education system in Guyana and also ensured that
Indians in Guyana were denied higher education. This was because
Indian parents were ensuring that their kids get higher education.
Indians were the majority at UG so he introduced National Service
and that was the beginning of two things--
1. the exodus of Indians
who wanted to continue their education
2. lots of Indians
especially girls were denied higher education because the ones who
dared to go to National Service were victims of rape. There was this doctor at New Amsterdam who related
recently that when the boat used to come out from Kimbia in Berbice-
one of the stops were his clinic where mostly Indian girls used to go for abortions.
Guyanese had
had to go through all levels of demeaning and atrocities at the
hands of Burnham that it sometimes seems unbelievable that it really
occurred and was only a nightmare. It is most disgusting to see the
PPP now fulfilling most of Burnham's dreams. Indians are still
fleeing these shores and the ones remaining are still made to feel
as if they do not belong to Guyana. | 
