Dear Editor,
The Minister of Home Affairs, Mr Clement Rohee, who is also General Secretary of the PPP went on television and told this nation on Xmas Eve night that the Mayor of Georgetown, Mr Hamilton Green, was the sole cause of the deteriorating state of the city of Georgetown. However, he conveniently forgot to inform us of the various taxes due to the council which are not being paid, and also that the council is not being given the authority to increase its revenue base by the Minister of Local Government.
It is not we alone in Region Four who have this garbage fiasco. Check the other regions and you will see the mess we are in.
What an injustice: You blame the mayor and councillors, but the government is the cause. “Talk for rain and talk for sun,” my grandmother used to say.
Very shortly we will have a serious epidemic in this country, and the Minister of Health should be thinking about his next move to stop this outbreak which is in the making.
The Minister of Local Government, along with the Town Clerk, should visit the cemetery when a funeral is taking place, and put back trucks to remove the garbage from residents’ homes forthwith.
The Minister of Works should have left Cemetery Road as it was before. Now he has turned it into a pothole. One block of road was repaired three times and still has not been completed as yet, causing serious damage to motor vehicles. The road should have been done instead of demolishing houses and fences.
I had cause to go there with some overseas visitors and was so ashamed that when they laid their loved one to rest in the tomb in the jungle, at the same time draycarts, canter vans, etc, were discharging rubbish all over the passageway and on what used to be the roadway. When you spoke to them, you got all the best words that make up the English language. My friends cried bitterly to see the state of their country and where their loved one was laid finally to rest.
Lest we forget, the Minister of Tourism always has a broad smile on his face, and is always boasting about how he is inviting tourists to see Guyana.
In my humble opinion, these high officials live somewhere else and not in Georgetown, and administer from a distant land, like the British used to do before Independence. At least the British had good administrators here to look after the well-being of this nation and their then subjects.
Yours faithfully,
David Noel
