Dear Editor,
We read a report published on Saturday in another publication stating that, “The Home Affairs Ministry wishes to report that a total of 198 animals were impounded during the month of November, 2014 in pounds in A (Georgetown); B (Berbice); C (East Coast); and D (West Demerara) Police Divisions.” That’s good and encouraging news, but could the learned Minister state categorically what has been done about a particularly large ubiquitous marauding herd of cows, sheep, goats and horses that are farmed in the middle of Success village? The owner allows the animals to roam the villages of Success and Chateau Margot, as well as Pigeon Island and LBI on the East Coast, foraging and destroying householders’ fences and bridges and even posing threats to the local schoolchildren on their way back and forth to the local primary school.
Editor, despite several complaints and appeals for help from the local authorities here, that particular farmer living in the centre of Success does not care who said what, as he stated some time ago publicly. Some villagers and owners of properties think that the NDC had given the owner authority to have his cows and horses roaming and destroying and being a threat to children on their way to and from school. It seems to many that the NDC is cognizant of this nuisance but prefers to turn its head the other way pretending that it does not see. We wish that the learned Minister of Home Affairs would take cognizance of this nuisance, and impose his official legal authority to end it.
Yours faithfully,
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