Dear Editor,
I am writing this letter with the hope that some assistance from the new APNU+AFC government could be rendered to our Yarrowkabra housing group. Fourteen years ago, I, along with some friends and business associates, applied for some house lots in Yarrowkabra and were given eighteen lots at the front of Yarrowkabra, opposite the Sky Lark Resort, for which we were very grateful. We spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean the land. During that time we tried to get some help from the then government. How-ever, no help was forthcoming.
After being relocated and being given the same eighteen house lots at the back of Yarrowkabra, we were able to build seven houses (three completed and four incomplete), with no assistance from the government with regard to the provision of infrastructure, and some group members began to lose interest and the work slowed down drastically. A few years ago, the Secretary of our group was advised to write to the then prime minister (Mr Samuel Hinds) to seek assistance with regard to having electricity provided to the area. She sent a letter on May 16, 2011, and the following day, received a reply advising us that the government will try to assist as soon as they could.
Three years passed without any assistance being rendered, and another letter was sent to the prime minister on Septem-ber 18, 2014. Unfortunate-ly, no reply was received. Electricity is one of the most needed utility services for infrastructural development. What I do not understand is how the road running parallel to ours has electricity right the way to the backland. GPL would have had to pass our entrance in order to provide electricity to those persons on the road that leads to the backland. So, it is not to say that electricity is not in the area, so what is the problem?
In desperation, I wrote a letter via the newspapers, appealing to the ex-presi-dent – Donald Ramotar ‒ hoping to get some attention from the then government, but again, to no avail. Over the years, I have written so many letters to the PPP government and the Lands and Surveys Department, but have gotten nowhere.
Our group comprises enterprising citizens of this country who are trying to do something for ourselves. This is something that would enhance Yarrowkabra and would have been praiseworthy for the government of the day, because as far as I am aware, there still is no housing scheme in Yarrowkabra. I am only left to conclude that the PPP government was not interested in helping honest middle-class Guyanese citizens who want to move forward. We sincerely hope that this new government will look into this matter and provide the assistance we so desperately need in the area of infrastructure. We specifically look forward to the intervention of Minister of Housing Keith Scott, in this regard.
Yours faithfully,
Arthur Taylor
President
Yarrowkabra
Housing Group
