Building monuments should not be about politics

TIMES INT'L

Dear Editor,
The entire Linden protest scenario is something that has left an ugly mark in Guyana’s history. I just wish that it never happened. Now that it is over and government is seeking to make good on the Linden Commission of Inquiry (CoI) recommendations, I say that we first clear this and other matters.
So I am not sure if this setting up of a monument park by the Region 10 Democratic Council (RDC) to honour the three shooting victims during that protest is justified.
We can learn some vital lessons from what took place. I believe in peaceful negotiations and never in the destruction of anything. Linden, right now has a lot of rebuilding to do. The town needs its school that was burnt down. It is now working towards a new building. This is wasted money.
There are complaints too about ambulance and hospital service, and here too, money could have been more freely available, but it has to go elsewhere. I am cautioning that this monument park can very well lead to all kinds of politicisation.
When it comes to the idea of monuments, I am thinking of the host of businessmen who were recently killed in Guyana. What if someone conjures up the idea of building monuments for them too? History must be recorded.
Yours respectfully,
Yollande Morrison

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