Dear Editor,
I read in the Guyana Times on October 5, an article on the shortage of drugs at Issano. The article stated that this was the result of the sunken dredge in the Mazaruni River Falls. The shortage of drugs could not be the result of the dredge. There is another reason. On the very day that the team from Marad visited the site, they saw boats with cargo passing through the Falls. As a matter of fact, jet boats and cargo boats never stopped working except for two days when wire ropes were stretched across the channel to pull the dredge out of the water.
At present the dredge is 80% out of the water and the jet boats are still traversing the channel without any difficulty. As recently as today, October 5, three jet boats passed through the very channel that everyone, including Mr Ralph Persaud, who has a vested interest in this, seems not to know about.
The water is going down now and soon the rocks in the channel would stop all traffic through this channel.
Yours faithfully,
A Persaud
