Dear Editor,

On my way to the post office to purchase a postage stamp to affix on a late Xmas card for a friend, I met the newspaperman delivering the day’s newspaper, and so I collected my usual copy of the Stabroek News.

At the post office while waiting on the pretty perfumed clerk to attend to me I read that the Chairman of the board of directors of the Guyana Post Office Corporation had resigned his prestigious position as a member of that board.

The wry smile on my face was not for the efficient post office clerk, but for the diligence and alacrity of the new junior minister of finance’s response to calls for his resignation as it may have a conflict of interest on his new designation.

As I was on my way home with a friend I met at the post office, she mentioned to me after reading my newspaper, that, “you know, dat man gat to explain to his fellow Guyanese how he earned dat honorific title of bishop. Dat man is no bishop.”

Smiling and admiring my new found friend’s hairstyle I replied quietly, “well seeing dat deh man is now busy with his new job as junior minister maybe someone should write a letter to the editor of Stabroek News, and ask the question; maybe the learned bishop would respond with an apt plausible
explanation”.

Yours faithfully,
(Name and address supplied)