Dear Editor,
President Bharrat Jagdeo proudly refuses to bow to accepted dress codes and rules of grammar and is forging ahead with creating his own rules. Now that we know that our President is not comfortable in a tie, I would hope he would pity us, the poor commoners, and relax the dress codes to enter the compound and offices of the Office of the President. If they do, I will quote our dear President and say that I am following our Leader’s example and am properly dressed for comfort and to hell with dress codes; preserving the dignity of occasions and office; respecting the participants, such as University students and faculty in proper attire; and most of all respecting ourselves, community and country by having the good manners to be appropriately dressed.
Until the President’s interview over the weekend on NCN with Martin Goolsarran, I was completely unaware that Stabroek News created the country’s dress codes and safeguarded them! The president stated that he did not need to dress to please David de Caires or Anna Benjamin!
Someone well brought up and with good manners would have simply explained and apologised if caught with their pants down, so to speak. Instead we now have a presidential example that flouting rules is okay.
I am displeased that this heretical image is being resurrected and condoned through the boorish and inelegant behaviour of Guyana’s high officials. To publicly and arrogantly proclaim such discomfort reveals even more.
Yours faithfully,
Garfield Williams
