Dear Editor,
I am still mystified and unable to comprehend the statements and expressions made by his Excellency, the President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana.
The atrocious and distasteful behaviour of the top official in the Ministry of Health, resulted in his warranted dismissal from office, after maybe eight or nine days of protest coming from all sections of a society that advocate propriety and proper conduct among Government Ministers. The protest I can understand and the decision to dismiss him is acceptable.
But, after days of this debacle, to hear the President coming out and stating that his minister was a victim, this was a travesty and an insult to proper thinking.
It would have been better or wiser for the President to let the matter rest, rather than saying and I quote, ‘I am sorry for Doctor Bheri Ramsaran’.
This statement coming from a President of the entire country was done to invoke sympathy and maybe empathy from a certain section of the electorate at this time of the election campaign.
This is why I want to ask the question, does this caring President feel sorry for the many mothers that have lost their children through some failing of the Ministry of Health?
Did he feel sorry for the children that were left fatherless when their father – Courtney died by a blitz of bullets while advocating for residents of Diamond to come out and vote.
What about the recent death on the roadway of a Guyanese resident, who did well for Guyana in the realm of sports/boxing – Six Head Lewis?
What about the woman that was involved in the Ramsaran incident, does the President feel sorry for her? After all the indignities that were directed to her.
If, as he said, he was sorry for the Minister, then he should reach out to him, and make sure he sees a Doctor of Psychiatry and let him go through a series of tests to determine why the Minister said what he said, and did what he did.
As a leader I too am faced with many issues among my congregants. There are times when I would exercise some degree of grace in dealing with an offender, and other times when the severity of the offence would require serious discipline.
This line of approach I believe works for the restoration and redemption of the soul, but some will say, Pastor, you don’t understand that is the Church, but this is politics, where things are done differently. I don’t think so, we all need help sometimes!
Yours faithfully,
Apostle Vanrick Beresford
