I’m a big fan of the American evangelist Bishop T D Jacques. The man is simply the best preacher God has ever made; he deals with people trying to cope with life as opposed to parading in some edifice we go to on Sundays. He talks about real dilemmas; not abstract concepts or platitudes. In a recent television presentation he was making the point that we can easily become jaded or cynical from dealing with the setbacks of our lives and that we should take time to step back and look at the good side that is always there, and to draw strength from that. It’s advice more of us in Guyana should follow.
So the next time you doubt our ability to do things in Guyana, take yourself up to the Umana Yana structure in Kingston. Go in the daytime when there is light, stand in the centre of it and look up to the roof structure towering overhead. Look at the intricacy of the work there; the absolute precision of the joints, the tightness of the woven palm cover,
