Dear Editor,
I was taken back by the following headline in the Kaieteur News edition of 11 November 2019 `Contract deal shocking…Rusal ships out 12 times more than what they declare yearly’.
Even though I initially dismissed the headline as nonsensical and thought it not worth reading . my abiding interest in world bauxite and Guyana bauxite in particular made it difficult for me to resist further reading.
Having lived in Guyana for over 80 years. I have always been intrigued by the term “stupidness;” I never thought that the country’s leading newspaper would have elevated that term to such a level of stupidness, and to crown the level, add that the Berbice Bridge which meticulously records bauxite shipments and probable earns revenue from bauxite movements through the bridge, had confirmed 45,000 tonnes bauxite being shipped out of the Berbice River every day— equivalent to 162, 000,000 tonnes per year.
What bothers me most is that a large section of the Guyanese public would believe that stupidness and that we may soon see budding politicians and even legal luminaries calling for a commission of inquiry into that situation.
Yours faithfully,
Sylvester Carmichael
