One year later: UG top student jobless
October 29, 2010 | By KNews | Filed Under Letters
Bharrat Jagdeo presenting the President’s award to the valedictorian Loria-Mae Angela Heywood
Dear Editor,
It has taken me one year to break my silence. I attempted to pen these lines many times, but deferred, hoping for the best, but I can no longer hold my peace. I did not even tell my daughter that I was writing this letter because, knowing her unassuming and non-combative style, she would be sure to say, “Mummy, don’t…” but anger burns in my breast, and I must speak, lest I implode!
The University of Guyana’s (UG) valedictorian of 2009, Ms Loria-Mae Heywood, received straight A’s for the entire four-year period of her sojourn at UG, and no wonder, as I saw her, many a night, burning the midnight oil, with her head bowed, as she poured over notes, determined to fulfill St Margaret’s Primary School’s motto: “To be the best that I can be.” She may well have been the first student in the history of the University of Guyana to have earned a distinction in every Course of the International Relations Degree programme!
I must say thanks to entities like the Republic Bank who saw it fit to honour her with a monetary gift. Hopefully she will receive the outstanding monetary award from the University of Guyana sometime in the near future.
She received a medal from no less a person than the President of Guyana for her distinguished performance…and one year later, after sending out about 40 job applications, she is still jobless!
Mr Patrick Yarde kindly arranged for her to have an interview with the Prime Minister who promised to see what he could do…and one year after graduation she is jobless! She even received a call from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (one of the many entities to which she had sent her job application) stating that she would ‘hear from them’…but one year later she is still unemployed!!
We pay lip service, prattling about youth as the wave of the future and about education paving the way for success, but frustrate our best brains and promote ignorance and incompetence. I’m sure you will agree with me that this signals a time for change! We long for a government by the people, for the people! Surely the writing is on the wall.
If my daughter was from one of our sister Caribbean territories, she would have no doubt received a full scholarship to pursue further studies, but in Guyana our best is rewarded with No Job! (I’ll leave you to guess the reason!)
Enough is enough! Does one expect her to grab a tray and sell some plantain chips and mettai in front of the office of the President with the medal dangling from her neck?
But we still believe God’s Word which says: “I’ve never seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging for bread! … No weapon formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgement, you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord…”
Claudia Heywood
October 31-2010:
TO: http://propagandapress.wordpress.com/
My Response To Mae Haywood’s Un-employment Issue:
It is unfortunate that a daughter of Guyana, with outstanding intellectual qualifications is unable to get employment, after graduation over two years from the University Of Guyana.
Miss Mae Haywood is another one of our daughters that the state has FAILED to provide employment for, and also to co-op the much dire needed skills and expertise, that the Republic Of Guyana so desperately need at this time.
Is it politics that has prevented her from gaining employment locally?
Or is it the lack of the preferred Ethnicity that has prevented her from so doing?
Whatever is the reason for this woman, (and one of several Guyanese)
who are overlooked, dis-regarded, and prejudiced against, because they do not fit a certain preferred profile, Must be addressed expeditiously, at all levels of our society!
Sincerely,
Derryck S. Griffith.
NYC.
http://mimbari.livejournal.com/109763.html
Let us pray for our leaders. Our leaders are under attack
from RACISTS who wants to see us fail.
This person Ms. Haywood got and International Relations degree
at the University of Guyana.
Good.
But how much valedictorian lives was wasted because. of cases as of
BAKKE.
or more precisely BURNBEEF. ignoramous policies.
with her International Relations degree maybe she can
ask Nelson Mandela a job a SOUTH AFRICA.
What is a International Relations degree good for,
a George Clooney career claiming to be better than James Bond.
Then this author claim that selling plantain chips is a problem.
Black people got some ways about them.
Soon they will condemn me. Zaheed Emran Ally.
A man issued out of GUYANA. because of a pungent odor of BLACKNESS.
POLIO just hit SOUTH AFRICA. Thank You GOD.
Haiti is still reeling from Cholera. Thank You GOD.
Winston Murray chartered a Physician to GUYANA to treat him.
Although he cannot speak. Winston Murray is on respirator. Yet the article
a black person wrote said Winston Murray requested a BLACK DOCTOR to treat him.
There are hypocrites and parasites. BLACK PEOPLE are BOTHA these.
Zaheed Emran Ally as a write in CANIDATE for PRESIDENT.
Zaheed Emran Ally
Zaheed Ally means Blessed Friend.
Christ will come in a new name and it will be dreadful among the heathens.