As promised last week in the first installment of my Singular Guyanese column when space ran out, here is the second half of that creature. In this post, I’m raising a shout for some more folks who either make important contribution to our lives, indirectly, by their work, or directly by some kind of personal example we have become familiar with.
One of them for me is businessman Dennis Dias, who I knew only slightly before coming to live in Guyana. Since my marriage to Annette, however, and based in town for the first time, Dennis, as it turns out, lives just half a block away from me and I have built a close relationship with him, one which I believe is more beneficial to me than it is to Dennis because I have come to know him as a formidable resource in a number of areas in everyday life. As anyone who knows him can tell you, Mr. Dias is a very congenial soul (it occurs to me writing this that in the 10 years I have known him on the East Coast,