Dear Editor,
Mark Anthony Benschop and I have had our ups and downs in politics. We have never had a personal problem and whenever we see each other we get along well.
Mark will be Mark but not one of us can question his contributions in the area of political and social activism. He has worked tirelessly to highlight the plight of the poor and downtrodden and gave selflessly through his charitable organisation to ease their burdens and poverty.
If I were to be brutally honest, had it not been for his original style and pattern of fearlessly and continuously taking the fight to the past regime, the brand of activism that eventually saw its fall would not have taken flight. He has inspired a whole generation in that sense.
Benschop’s struggle to see a better Guyana was not without tribulations and yet he never relented.
We have moved into a different era and we owe him a debt of gratitude for his hard work and commitment. We must give those who made major sacrifices to pilot our nation through its most turbulent period, the things that are due to them.
Today, Mark Benschop is intensifying his campaign to become Mayor of Georgetown and I would urge everyone to lend him their shoulders to get there. If we use the same passion and drive that so define him and his work in the struggle to see a better Guyana, he will be successful. It is only right we stand by him the same way he stood by us.
I wish to also personally endorse him and wish him the very best in his quest to lead Georgetown.
Yours faithfully,
Norman Browne
London
