Dear Editor,
Our benign President David Granger, in his noble address recently to the United Nations General Assembly on the matter of the current migrant crisis, noted that the situation “if left unattended or unresolved, can escalate into regional and even global crises, which can threaten the existence of larger numbers of persons in wider areas, even beyond their country’s borders.”
Most of us in Guyana today are descendants of migrants who were brought from Africa or India or China and even Portugal in challenging times and conditions, to work for the Dutch and then the British who colonized this land. Some of us are even third generation migrants.
Guyana currently has less than one million inhabitants in its eighty-three thousand square miles, so could it not accept a number of those suffering human beings and demonstrate its good sense and magnanimity both to them and the rest of the world?
Let’s do it!
Yours faithfully,
Rooplall Dudhnath
