After University and Prison, What?

“Shubh Diwali, Happy Mashramani”

Not having attended Secondary School, much more the local University,  my unlettered, uncertified “inferiority complex”  intrudes whenever I make bold to comment on things related to our highest tertiary institution, the University of Guyana (UG).

However, I’m sort of an example to my working-class, non-academic countrymen that we can still make it without academia’s accolades,  (Why, I’m soon to complete twenty non-stop years, as a newspaper columnist!) Keep hope alive!  I also reserve my citizen’s right to comment, responsibly, on matters of national significance.  So here is my most simple take – and concerned anxiety – on the University we all help to upkeep.

Saturday 10th November, 2012, saw the 46th Convocation Exercise which graduated more than 1400 students.  Many are already in the