Dear Editor,
I am writing to you in my former capacity as the first elected president of the Guyana International Remigrants Association, sanctioned by the ex-president Bharrat Jagdeo, some ten years ago. Linden and politics aside, I feel it is absolutely imperative to visit or revisit our national security strategy.
Although I may have resided overseas from 1956 to 1998 I choose to remain here and I claim my right to express my view of the broad and imminent picture that can and will unfold in the prevailing toxic environment. I am not afraid to use the term, “if you fail to plan, you surely plan to fail.”
Editor, as far as I know there are at least four living Guyanese who attained the rank of general after graduating from the esteemed Sandhurst Military College in the United Kingdom. Their surnames are Singh, McLean, Granger and Atherley. Add to those GDF Chief of Staff Best and Police Commissioner (ag) Brummel, we currently have six topnotch strategists whom President Ramotar should immediately invite and sequester to fine-tune a national internal security plan for Guyana. Those among us who have a modicum of vision must recognize my reason (s) for this suggestion.
This selected group must take into account all international, United Nations and human rights conventions, and a brief timeframe for a consensus must be set.
In our current discourse I am yet to see or hear a similar proposal for Guyana’s future safety and survival; I therefore say like Nike, the leading sportswear company in the world, “Just do it.“
Yours faithfully,
George L Munroe
