Dear Editor,
Life is a busy schedule and if Guyana, a nation on the move, does not measure up to its schedules or timelines, we would be left behind. Sometimes speakers and audiences are late for meetings; if pastors are not late, worshippers are; either lawyers or their clients are late for engagements. Fire tenders may arrive when fires are already out of control. Proprietors open their shops after openings hours have passed to the inconvenience and ire of waiting customers.
Government employers and those of private entities are not always punctual, relative to work. Election schedules could be erratic or are shifted according to dates. Singer Dave Martins rightly said, “We buy expensive watches just to know the time and date and to know how late we late.”
We should observe this brief nursery rhyme as a motto, in order to be on schedule. “I hate to be late said Kate, so she ran to the gate with her slate.” A country is like an engine, and if an engine has lost its timings, it would malfunction. The same would happen to Guyana if it continues not to be on schedule.
Yours faithfully,
George Carrington
