Great disappointment

March 29, 2013 | By KNews | Filed Under Letters

Dear Editor, As usual, I planned inviting a number of my work colleagues to make a trip to the Caribbean for the Easter holidays. Being Guyanese, I thought it would be best this time around to encourage my buddies from other parts of the world to come and visit my homeland. In the process of planning, another friend told me that there was a website indicating that packages were being offered for persons to rediscover home/Guyana. I visited the site www.rediscoverguyana.com and was elated with the information about possible tours and other interesting activities. This was exactly the type of stuff we were looking for. To my disgust and surprise, after calling the numbers of the Ministry of Tourism and being placed on hold for lengthy periods, I finally gave up. I subsequently learnt that this was a project that was being promoted in the US and around the world, but was never completed. Unlike many of our detractors, I always found favour in helping to promote my country. This was the reason I was so elated when I saw the website and all that information. I’m sure it had to cost thousands of dollars to put that site together. I’m also sure that quite a lot was put into the planning by the Guyana Tourism Authority. There were many of us who were planning to take advantage of the trips to the various parts of the country. I can’t help expressing my utter surprise at the loss of such an opportunity, especially since so many Guyanese and other nationalities will be visiting for Easter, and would have loved to take advantage of such a planned program. I hope the authorities will get behind those responsible for this foul-up, and explain to the many resort operators and disappointed persons, why there was such a failure, when we could have made a mark by expanding our visitor opportunities to so many different parts of Guyana. I never went to the Essequibo or the Corentyne. This was such a golden opportunity for me, my family and friends, as the information noted that there would have been effective security at all time, which was my greatest concern. I hope we can make up on this major blunder. Kenrick Williams Albany, New York

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