Let’s inspire our Guyanese people by Shaun Michael Samaroo

Let’s engage with UG to see its Adult Learning and digital classrooms become instituted nationally. The protest at UG is a wake-up call to all of us, that we start a national conversation about UG and its role in our nation, instead of looking to satisfy the demands of a few discontents and malcontents, who resort to politics to make UG a playfield for political football.

We should be engaging in conversations, with realistic information, to expand Government’s success in its national housing programme, to tertiary education, where we have universal tertiary education, and where every Guyanese citizen is entitled to a first degree, with UG working hand-in-hand with the technical institutes and other trade schools. This is the kind of conversation the UG protest should be generating in our media and among our leaders.

Then, with the Georgetown fiasco, we see the media blaming Government, ignoring the gross incompetency of the Mayor and Town Council, for lack of local government elections.
As much as Government and the state media failed to make the case that the system of local government elections needs serious work before it could be effective, those who regurgitate the contemporary story of Georgetown fail to inspire us, motivate us. Instead, whenever the state of Georgetown comes up, we become demoralised, depressed, down: our capital city stinks, we feel, and shrug our shoulders in helplessness. Such an attitude ripples across the rest of our lives, affecting how we see ourselves as a Guyanese people.