Dear Editor,
I am extremely grateful to Gary Girdhari for his appropriate comments on the partnership between the UG Foundation and DDL, a major alcohol producing company. Editor, maybe Guyana has become a “liquor” country officially and nothing can be done without the input of the alcohol industry. Maybe the UG Foundation will go into an alliance with the marijuana industry when it is legalized, and don’t forget our nascent gambling industry with more and more casinos slated to open.
Many commentators over the years have suggested that moral standards have fallen so precipitously in the past 4 decades that we no longer know right from wrong or good from bad. Editor, maybe the UG Foundation can enlighten us the public on its aims and objectives as it may help us to understand this new “strategic” move it has made hand in glove with DDL.
Editor, where the University of Guyana is located lie the village of Cummings Lodge which is replete with rum shops and UG students are known to frequent these places before, during and after classes. While it was only the male students involved now it seems that many female students accompany their male colleagues to these bars.
I ask the leaders of the UG Foundation to rethink their decision with immediate effect and find alternative partners in the wider business community including the agricultural sectors, not forgetting the oil industry whose coffers are now overflowing.
Sincerely,
C. Persaud
