Dear Editor,
KINDLY give this response to Mr Vincent Alexander’s missive, “…..these students are misleading readers”, similar prominence in your publication.The caption to his letter is the mother of all ironies, because it is pregnant with inaccuracies aimed at discrediting one of the students, Mr Clairmonte Cox.

Mr Alexander sought to inform the public about studentship on a Government-sponsored law programme at UWI. I am saying that Mr Alexander has acted in bad faith, because Mr Cox’s studentship at UWI is a matter between the UWI and Mr Cox. I don’t believe Mr Vincent Alexander has any authority to speak for and/or on behalf of the UWI. Whatever were those issues, they are irrelevant here and now, and his is clearly an unprovoked attack on Mr Cox, done in bad faith.

What is to Mr Cox’s credit, but Mr Alexander has not mentioned, is that Mr Cox has discharged his contractual 5-year obligation by teaching at Central High School to this present day. Further, Mr Cox entered the Law Department at the University of Guyana to obtain a proper law degree.

I wish to advise the reading public that Mr Cox has told me he has drawn to the attention of the editors of our dailies, including their attorney(s)-at-law, that Mr Vincent Alexander had misled them into publishing wrong information that he, Cox, had taken a BA degree, graduated, and had not discharged his responsibilities in regard to loan repayment.

Mr Sheik Mustapha and I read Mr Alexander’s publication and felt very disappointed in Mr Cox, but Mr Cox is vehemently denying Mr Alexander’s carefully chronicled assertion. My question is: who is misleading the reading public?

On behalf of Mr Sheik Mustapha, Mr Clairmonte Cox and myself, I wish to thank Mr Vincent Alexander for informing the Government and reading public that we were awaiting the approval of our loan applications by the Ministry of Finance, and that the Finance Ministry had sought to pay UG on our behalf.

Ironically, Mr Vincent Alexander said the University of Guyana, an agent of the state, refused the payment offered by the Ministry of Finance. We know the payment arrangement was on the advice of the Ministry of Legal Affairs. We have been speaking the truth!
Editor, this letter needs to be published.

Thank you,
Ras John Marcus