Dear Editor,
The last surveys done on West Coast Berbice from Rosignol to Plantation Ross – a distance of about 15 miles ‒ laid out the area into house lots, land for cultivation, streets, playgrounds and burial grounds. The stretch from Plantation Brahan to Plantation Profit was left to be surveyed. This was over 50 years ago. Many of the sand reefs were sold to the government in order to build the present highway.
However, erosion caused by the sea was responsible for a lot of destruction. Five of the biggest two-door sluices were built at Belladrum, Lichfield, Kingelly, Yeoville and No 29, but today these have been left in the open sea. In addition, Seafield burial ground and its hundreds of tombs and graves are also in the sea. Government should allow people to build their tombs on private lots which have no buildings, and which they keep for the purpose. If a licence were to be required for this, people would be prepared to pay.
Yours faithfully,
Bramdeow Singh
