Let’s inspire our Guyanese people by Shaun Michael Samaroo

So we’ve got a national media landscape that insists on telling a Guyanese story of us being an awful nation. In this atmosphere, where our national conversations impact our minds, our morale, our sense of self-belief and self-confidence as a people, even the freely and fairly elected Government, falls victim to the swirling negativity of language that plays out daily in this society.

So the newspapers and websites and TV stations fail us, and the people cuss their Government, and we perpetuate a Guyanese national atmosphere filled with a bad story of us.

We see the protest at the University of Guyana generating a lot of media attention, and, of course, politics became the centre of focus. Then we have our capital city, Georgetown, in a state of immense disrepair, with even the City Hall building falling apart. Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture, Dr. Frank Anthony is working to restore the historic building, but even that story, we push to a tiny corner of the back page.
How do we handle these two stories, so that we accomplish the goal of inspiring and lifting the nation, instead of demoralising and depressing our people?

But is that the real story?
Our UG should be a place of restlessness, of students, these new thinkers emerging from their classroom with bright new ideas and innovative solutions, wanting to transform the status quo. We should celebrate the fact that they want to see improvement to the national university. But how do we engage them? Instead of politicising the whole affair, we need to go into UG, talk to the students and the professors and the administration staff, and develop human stories of what’s it like for Guyanese to own and operate our own university, and our own medical school and pre-law school and place of intellectual development.

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