Rate of illiteracy and the public system

– Experiencing the frustrating New Amsterdam Hospital.

Vibrant and alive, this country hums with economic energy. We seem to be on the cusp of a great economic take-off.

We solved our housing crisis, and housing development is re-painting the landscape everywhere.

Yet, we have such a far way to go. Citizens seem to be leaping ahead, carving and forging their personal economic development out of social chaos, while Government lags far behind in an age of rigid inefficiency.

People across this land experience degrading, humiliating public service.

20130131shaunWere we to transform the relationship between the citizen and his or her Government, we would see less stress, a reduction in public aggravation and a happier citizenry.

At public hospitals and through the public education system, Guyanese feel helpless and unable to cope in their own country.

Citizens with the means, those able to pay their way through this State-run system of inefficiency, greed, corruption and poor management, get by quite easily.

But for the majority of Guyanese, encountering the