I WOULD be remiss not to offer my comment and disgust over the constant telephone and internet disruptions   in Region 2 by Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) on Thursday June 14, 2012 and was, quite simply, a repeat of my letter in the Guyana Chronicle ‘GT&T needs to improve their telephone and internet services in Region 2’. A protracted period of internet slowdown and breakage of voice telecommunication with landlines and cell phones in and out of the region about every other day would not be exaggerating the truth.
Every other outcome was a matter of unnecessary inconvenience: inoperable, the unbearable services, the inability to explore the marvels of a computer and the worldwide web (for those of us ambitious to surf the one netbook per family wave when it comes crashing), and the general malaise that follows such prolonged telephone break up in communications.
I was rejoicing that my troubles were over after the technicians fixed it the first time after seeing it in the newspapers. Do I need to enumerate how a developing region like Essequibo, or any other populated part of Guyana for that matter, will be impacted by a prolonged slowing down  of your internet and telephone services?
Let me not sound ungrateful for the little advances in internet  service  in this region, for I know some theoretician of a certain ilk will reprimand me for not recalling how worse things were under a previous administration. However, I humbly try to be apolitical while suggesting that in recognition of modernity and development, ordinary citizens should by now at least be able to enjoy a stable and fast internet and reliable telephone service. After all, GT&T has been boasting of our robust economic growth and policies and technological and social  advances. So from my limited standpoint, I would hope such an expectation does not indulge implacable fantasising.
I hear my computer humming ;  I am finally able to produce my letter with whatever  speed  on my computer, but my telephone is still breaking up while talking to my friends and family  for the past three days,  although GT&T promised to run a test on my lines and rectify my internet and telephone services. Hopefully tomorrow will bring better fortune.