Dear Editor,
The United Nations Organisation – an international forum representative of most of the world’s peoples – has chosen to designate this year as ‘The Year of People of African Descent.’
I’ll restrain myself from detailing my attitude to the objectives and actual achievements of these official years. In a word, I’d like always to see the actual, the tangible and the materially long-lasting emanating from these year-long observances, even as attention is showered on the declarations, the lectures and the monuments.
From information technology facilities to factories manufacturing cement or bottles, to becoming importers of every legal item, why can’t African-Guyanese this ‘year’ became like Indian-Guyanese every year?
Make and write the speeches, but be tangible with new clinics, schools and a real future.
Yours faithfully,
Alan A Fenty
