Dear Editor,
Dionne Warwick in her wonderful song “What the World Needs Now is Love” tells us that we don’t need anymore mountains, oceans, rivers, and valleys, since we have enough to last till the end of time, but “love sweet love” is what we need to make the world a better place. Just after listening to that song, I opened the Stabroek News March 5, 2007 to read Oluatoyin Alleyne’s descriptive report “Capsized boat.” It was a sad and very intriguing story about a tragic incident that was nicely written.
But as if the agony that the fishermen encountered at sea was not enough to burn our hearts, the writer helped us along by exposing the sickening, callous and inhuman behaviour of our “fellowmen”, in response to one distressed fisherman: “While Hussain was rescued on Sunday afternoon, Mohan had to endure the sea for several hours more