Dear Editor,
There was a young horse tied up behind the tennis court at National Park on Tuesday morning. There was a young man hitting it with a big white plastic bucket.
Then at Mon Repos, the same morning, where the old market street was, there was a young cow lying on its side in the hot morning sun on a dirty piece of concrete paving. At first I thought it was dead but I saw its stomach moving. I was told that it was dying and they are going to kill it for meat but in the meanwhile the poor animal was lying there suffering.
Take a visit to Mon Repos market on a Sunday morning and witness wanton cruelty meted out to animals. The animals are tied up in the hot sun waiting their turn to be slaughtered. Ducks and chickens are kept in these small crates—they have to be sitting down squashed together with others waiting their turn to die too.
People have pregnant animals pulling heavy carts in the hot sun. One cannot but ask oneself—where is the humanity of the people of Guyana?
Yours faithfully,
N Bisnath
