Dear Editor,
I would like to congratulate the Critchlow Labour College administration for bringing off their graduation exercises after a hiatus. This stagnation of the college for a certain period was due to many factors.
It is also good to see the subvention being given back to the college once again under this new government. Many intellectual, dynamic and productive persons present and past were groomed by this noble institution. I am also a product of Critchlow Labour College having done several courses there.
However, it is sad to know that some past lecturers (including myself) who worked with the students for years were not invited to this auspicious occasion. Not even a notice was posted in the media or on the airwaves informing them about this. These lecturers including myself worked with students for a certain period without any salary. The administration kept promising us that we would be paid for that period, but it never happened, even though students kept telling us that they were paying their dues to the college.
In concluding, therefore, I would like to say I hope the Education Minister, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine is reading this, because he was once the principal there and knows personally what I am talking about.
Yours faithfully,
George Gomes
Former Critchlow Labour College
lecturer in Sociology
