With reference to your editorial of Sunday, February 21, here is a little something that I do not believe reached the press, at the time when the Surinamese President had the nerve to send his gunboats to force out the CGX oil rig from Guyana’s waters. President Jagdeo visiting Grove to see the progress of work going on in Kaneville, was asked about the Surinamese aggression at a community meeting at the end of his visit. The President said he didn’t want war and went on to say he was confident we could beat Suriname if a war flared up. However, war means death, and President Jagdeo added that if our soldiers came home in body bags we wouldn’t like that.
At that meeting a little boy about five years old, called the President “Bharrat” and the child’s mother horrified, wanted to know how he could be so ‘full mouth’ as to call the President ‘Bharrat.’
Yours faithfully,
W P George
