Dear Editor,
I refer to Ms. Naicelis Williams’s letter captioned “Women are regularly subjected to vulgar remarks and obscene suggestions” (07.10.07).
In 2006 last year October, I was home to attend Guyexpo but this year I was absent and will continue to be absent until things get better because I suspected that the same dirty music that attracts most of the younger Guyanese population would be on show again.
The abuse of women is an important issue in Guyana and should be an ongoing topic.
It’s only after some of us migrate to the United States and other countries that we understand the dangers in abusing women in print, songs, the work place and otherwise. Many of our brothers are committing suicide when they get to understand the law of the land and the women they abuse.
Education and counselling for some of our brothers and sisters in the entertainment world would help or having Government put pressure on entertainment by passing laws that would make crooked faces straight, and in addition some community service along with some jail time working in shelters for battered women. It is these same songs and lyrics that cause many women to be battered.
It is time that Guyanese challenge some of the women in parliament to do their homework so that this disrespect be buried. It’s only the women who can demand that respect and demand that change, Ms. Williams.
Moreover, the Ithaca Cultural and Human Development Association shares your concern and we call on the Government of Guyana to take the abuse of women to the front burner.
Yours faithfully,
Bernard Rollins
Director and Public Relations Officer
Ithaca Cultural and Human Development Association
