President should be given time by opposition to recuperate

Dear Editor,

Where is the compassion for our President? Is the Opposition so taken up with gaining ground – profits over people that they fail to consider Mr. Granger’s health at this time of national crisis? It is not business as usual!

What would be lost or what would we lose to wait it out a few months to allow Mr. Granger to regain his physical, psychological and emotional strength to come back from his personal health crisis to attend to the national governance crisis? I am aware that the business of the country has to go on and cannot come to a standstill.

Are we no longer first human beings? Have we as a people now become beastly, dastardly and barbaric? This is what is seen from my eyes. No consideration that sickness requires recuperation. Life kicks in for all of us when we least expect it. Today for me, tomorrow for you, is the common parlance. What you don’t like for yourself don’t do to others. What we sow we reap.

Where is the human face in our Parliamentary Opposition? It is not what the other does. It is what one does in times when consideration, compassion and concern for our fellow human being is most needed – when one’s health is at a standstill or is threatened.

As a concerned citizen of Guyana and a human being considerate of my fellow human beings, I beseech the Opposition MPs to let better sense prevail, let your human conscience speak louder than your political ambition and return to the person you were before you allowed politics to eat away at your conscience.

Here’s my acrostic for conscience.

Consideration for others Ownership for one’s actions

Natural human reaction

Speak to the issue; seek first to understand before being understood

Control one’s self

Introspect

Entreat self and others to overcome resis tance

Needs: seek the need of a person over one’s own need

Concern for what’s happening with the other person at the individual level

Ethical response. Is morality in place? Mr. David Granger is currently the Father of our Nation. It behoves us as a people to do the honourable and admirable thing towards His Excellency.

Yours faithfully, Maria Rodrigues