-My government can respond, I’m sure
My “working-class” here refers to the thousands of Guyanese actually holding down some type of employment in the country’s public or private sector. It includes too, the self-employed and those tax-paying government workers described by veteran unionist Leslie Melville as “the employed poor.”
And why “Christmas gifts”? Because though Christmas is essentially a Christian (religious) Fes-tival, the now–comercialised annual celebration of the Divine Christ Child permeates most local groups, ethnicities, even religious – in terms of the national embrace of the observance. And since the tradition of Christmas-time gift-giving originated with that gift of a Holy child to mankind, the year-end seems a fitting period to ask for, to expect and to give gifts.
Okay, what workers should justifiably expect and
