My Response To Mae Haywood's Un-employment Issue:

[DerryckMimbari]

October 31-2010:

TO: The Editor.

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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

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University of Guyana 2009 valedictorian still unemployed
site admin | October 29, 2010 at 10:23 pm | Tags: bharrat jagdeo,
guyana, Loria-Mae Angela Heywood, Republic Bank, University of Guyana
| Categories: guyana, guyana crime |

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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
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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
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