I AM back on the Chris Gayle topic, as it seems that the Caribbean population is finding it hard to let go former Australian Captain Ian Chappell, who proposed a world cricket ban on Gayle, seemingly forgetting his own misdemeanours of the past.Articles from back in the day are suddenly being dug up and shared across the Internet, featuring Chappell in his heyday committing some less than honourable public offences himself. One such incident involves assault charges meted out to him following an attack on a Guyana Cricket Board Official during an argument right at the Bourda Cricket Ground in 1979. Back in 1975, Chappell reportedly dropped his pants while on the field, for the world to see, in response to which he said, “It’s a joke.”

Now, in all fairness, while Gayle is in his own boiling water for different reasons, I’d say that Chappell should not talk about it, as he is clearly no stranger to “making jokes” in bad taste or “acting out in public”. If anyone should keep his/her mouth shut on the matter, it should be Chappell.

Kumbayah

So, something came over Gordon Moseley and he decided to create a mash-up video of the national song “Let Us Cooperate for Guyana.” The enthused public figure called on persons to sing separate lines of the song and submit their videos. The end result was a mash-up that is currently enjoying massive shares throughout Facebook. Now, the submissions didn’t come from the best singers out there, but the enthusiasm alone is enough to make one smile. It seems like this was just the picker-upper people needed to get their mind off the other woes of the country.

Now, if we could only really cooperate to make this country a better place… Here’s to bringing the words of that song to fruition.

Now Essequibo?

At first our attentions focused on Berbice and the woes that blanketed its people in the form of murders and robberies, but now Essequibo has garnered our attention following the report that there are currently 5 persons hospitalised in the Suddie Hospital due to suicide attempts.

Not only is the number alarmingly high, but the fact that each of these incidents is totally separate from the others raises eyebrows. First of all, shame on iNews for revealing the name of the victims, especially that of a 12-year-old girl. Whatever happened to protecting the identity of children?

But, more importantly, people are still casting blame at the “state of things” in the country, and blaming the government for such incidents, though each of the victims has admitted to either being simply “confused” or “frustrated” with life when they attempted to kill themselves. Maybe it’s better to find any reason at all to cast blame. I suppose that an illogical reason is less troubling than no reason at all.