Dear Editor,
I sent mail to Toronto, Canada in the first week of April. It still hasn’t reached there. It has been two months. A query at the Guyana Post Office elicited the response that GPOC doesn’t charter a cargo service to deliver its mail. Therefore mail gets stuck in transit in Trinidad for lengthy periods.

I don’t believe the citizens of Guyana are aware of this. I certainly was not. It was only because I was sending a card for Mother’s Day and when I called on that day and enquired whether the card had arrived, the response was in the negative.

As we celebrate our 43rd anniversary as an independent nation, one can see our leaders, both previous and current, are incapable of managing this nation. Something as important as the delivery of citizens’ mail is not being administered with competence. Mail is an important service. Those Guyanese who study history may be aware that in the United States of America, the first President, George Washington was also the first Postmaster General of that nation.

There is a level of incompetence that pervades every government institution in this nation. Our politicians are capable of only one thing. Most of them speak well. They know what to say with conviction. It makes people believe them. But they are incapable of grasping the issues and coming up with solutions.

The feeling of optimism which followed Dr Jagan’s return to office died when he died.

The peak we reached at that time was small; we were well on our way on the downward slide over the last decade.
What troubles me is that private citizens such as myself have to complain about these issues before something is sometimes done. What are the opposition parties doing?
Yours faithfully,
Ganesh Singh