Dear Editor,
The authorities at all levels, national government and municipality, ought to be commended for the effort that is currently being made to clean up the city and its environs and fix the roads.
Nevertheless, one area that has been totally neglected for a very long time has been the roads of Bel Air Gardens. I know that the late Dr. Cheddi Jagan never cared about this area as he saw it as representative of the plantocracy. I do not know if this has had any underlying agenda since 1992, but that is ancient history and now Bel Air Gardens is the home of mostly Guyanese.
It is a dreadful shame that as we promote Cricket World Cup and as we open up the world to our country, this area where many participants and diplomats will be frequenting, still remains with roads ill-suited for tractors much less cars or pedestrians.
It is even more dreadful that many of our decision makers often frequent this community to visit the Canadian High Commissioner, the British High Commissioner, the Venezuelan Ambassador; folks whose governments dole out their largesse to our country, yet this area has been neglected like an abandoned orphan.
We pay a disproportionately high quantum of rates and taxes in Bel Air Gardens and somehow still accept the neglect as we do not want to raise the wrath of some overlord.
When our 11 year olds however, start to question us why we accept this kind of conduct, it is a reminder that we are failing them.
So this letter is a gentle reminder to those responsible to continue the current programme and include the roads of Bel Air Gardens, as we residents are citizens as well.
Yours faithfully,
Jerome Khan
Resident