Dear Editor,
I refer to the letter by Elton McRae of the Region 4 Co-ordinating Committee captioned "We should try to retain skilled overseas Guyanese" [ please note: link provided by LOSP web site ]. I support his proposal. I suggest for a start that the Register should be placed under the auspices of Dr. Surujbally and the Elections Commission who have both the experience and the software for assembling and managing data.
To an overseas Guyanese it seems completely impossible even with the best will in the world to contribute aid to our disunited (and consequently disorganised) nation. The initiatives must originate in Guyana and for this purpose a Register would help to create order and give an overview of possibilities.
I would like to offer my name for submission to the Register and my services if needed (no pay required). I am a civil engineer and former Guyana scholar. I have experience from consulting engineers in Western Europe, to wit 2 years with bridge design, twenty years with soil mechanics and foundation design and the last twelve years with railway design. I can be contacted through the SN.
I have been longing to visit Guyana for years but on account of the lack of personal security and the clashes, both my wife (European) and myself (a product of 4 of Guyana's 6 races but looking mostly East Indian) have been afraid to come. Instead I read the newspapers every day on the Internet.
A message in parting. I know the government is presently having discussions about a road from Brazil. The connection should on no account pass through forested areas. I am not talking about ecology and conservation in the present context. Experience from Brazil shows that thousands of construction Dear Editor,
I refer to the letter by Elton McRae of the Region 4 Co-ordinating Committee captioned "We should try to retain skilled overseas Guyanese". I support his proposal. I suggest for a start that the Register should be placed under the auspices of Dr. Surujbally and the Elections Commission who have both the experience and the software for assembling and managing data.
To an overseas Guyanese it seems completely impossible even with the best will in the world to contribute aid to our disunited (and consequently disorganised) nation. The initiatives must originate in Guyana and for this purpose a Register would help to create order and give an overview of possibilities.
I would like to offer my name for submission to the Register and my services if needed (no pay required). I am a civil engineer and former Guyana scholar. I have experience from consulting engineers in Western Europe, to wit 2 years with bridge design, twenty years with soil mechanics and foundation design and the last twelve years with railway design. I can be contacted through the SN.
I have been longing to visit Guyana for years but on account of the lack of personal security and the clashes, both my wife (European) and myself (a product of 4 of Guyana's 6 races but looking mostly East Indian) have been afraid to come. Instead I read the newspapers every day on the Internet.
A message in parting. I know the government is presently having discussions about a road from Brazil. The connection should on no account pass through forested areas. I am not talking about ecology and conservation in the present context. Experience from Brazil shows that thousands of construction labourers die (railway for rubber in Brazil) during such projects in tropical rain-forests from illness and disease, accidents, all the unforeseeable occurrences which only a world-class level of hygiene and building site administration can reduce to a low level. So please keep to the open land.
Another thought is that people everywhere in the developing countries do not respect the concept of maximum permissible axle load. They overload the lorries. The result could be that a perfectly new road can be made unusable in a short time by a few overloaded lorries. I think we should entertain this worry in advance and think up a solution which can combat human avarice.
Yours faithfully,
Gilbert Campbell