Dear Editor,
I appreciate the attempt at a philosophical response by Guyana Youth and Student Movement National Chairman Mr Christopher Jones MP, (‘The PNCR has several forums…’ SN, February 15) to my letter in the Stabroek News, but I am a pragmatist living in a real world. The fact is that the intellectual authors of the decision to remove Ms Vanessa Kissoon, MP from the front benches did it in a callous and disrespectful manner, causing her some degree of public humiliation. If the mechanisms boasted of by Mr Christopher Jones MP, had been fully exhausted then there would not have been so much anxiety among the party support base on this and other issues.
I have never been and have no intention of joining a secret society or being a passive member or affiliate of any organisation. It is time for that old axiom of ‘washing dirty laundry in public’ to be abandoned. The People’s National Congress Reform is a mass-based public institution and the alternative Government of Guyana, and thus it must appreciate public scrutiny of its achievements and misgivings.
The GYSM is the leadership incubator of the People’s National Congress Reform, therefore its leaders and members must be treated equally and with respect and at the same time they must stand up for what they believe in.
This is not the time for posturing and empty rhetoric but a time, as National Chairman, to recognize the blunder and disrespect by the leaders and to speak out against it as a matter of principle.
Yours faithfully,
Bevon Currie
Former National Secretary
Guyana Youth and Student
Movement
