Dear Editor,
I am responding to Mrs Amanda Murray’s letter captioned “There were secondary schools in these regions long before this government got into power (07.02.03). I know nothing about the new division into regions but I was well aware of the high educational standards in all of British Guiana when the professional services ran the nation.
Yes, there was a high school at Bartica started in 1948 by a Mr Wray, the principal.
Across the nation were high schools established by educational entrepreneurs who wanted to help the children to get further along the scholastic roadway. Mabaruma High, Port Kaituma, all the schools in the Georgetown area, Buxton, Mahaica, New Amsterdam, No64 and Skeldon. I will always give praise to the wonderful teachers at all these schools, and I knew most of them, because they made the students of the forties and fifties the brightest of the nation that we could fit in across the world. It is the one reason why those same students, as hard working nationals, flipped out of the nation when the politicians started to ruin a united and satisfied people.
Here’s a neat story for the teacher in Amanda Murray. A teacher, not satisfied with her job’s income, quit and purchased a small Morris Minor then started to cook food and sell from the trunk of her car. I was working at the Argosy newspaper when I grilled her for information and was quite excited at her resourcefulness. But that was when we were allowed to follow our own brainwaves.
Turn the country back to free enterprise and better schools and businesses will surface and our natural resources will then be utilized properly. I am the only person who travelled every square mile of the nation and am aware of what could be done with investment by the public both local and foreign. The politicians have been dumb since the onset of the party system.
Yours faithfully,
George Jackson
