CONGRATULATIONS to the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC)for their well executed Public Lecture Symposium held at the Anna Regina Town Council Hall, Essequibo Coast on the 30th June, in which more than 265 persons attended from various organisations, schools and villages to air their concerns on the topic: “All stakeholders working together to combat crime ensures ethnic security and harmony”. I did not see any stories of this event recorded in any news channels nor newspapers. I am positive that if this Commission had taken a wrong step or their activity was poorly attended it would have been made a public affair. But why not make their success a public one? Where are those people that love to pen the faults? Or are they disappointed now that they could not have found any flaw in the Commission?
Whoever runs the ERC doesn’t make a difference; it is the work of the Commission that is worth praising. The country needs an ERC as well as its people. Our political parties need to see this and go beyond the point of their personal matters and think what is best for its people. If what they have done once again does not show the public that the ERC doesn’t run on merely the Chairman and Commissioners alone but rather has functioned even well without their presence and I must say Bishop Juan Edghill has taught his staff well and their credibility is worth praising.
All Guyanese must continue to support the work of the ERC.