Dear Editor,
With all that is peddled through the various media, it is important to note that partisanship is alive within Region Five. The APNU+AFC government is for all of Guyana, and the APNU+AFC Councillors of Region 5 are always willing to offer a hand of fellowship, but we will not do so only to be bitten.
As a Regional Councillor I make every effort to seek an audience with the Regional Chairman; many times he is not in the office or is unwilling to compromise on matters where I believe we can find common ground in moving forward. I do so because of my bipartisan objective and a fair knowledge of how leaders of two sides should work for their people.
I do not wish to state again what happened during the April sitting of the RDC, but will say if only the Regional Chairman reads for himself he would have been properly informed of how the Chair works and not impute improper motives to members which brought the House/RDC into disrepute. Instead of reading the rules and standing orders for himself the Chairman is dependent on others to do so for him. Had he read them for himself, bipartisanship would have been a necessary objective and compromise on most of the matters I sought would have been advanced.
Nonetheless, Region 5 is strong and the people are ever confident in the coalition government. Contrary to what has been said in the media, it must be noted that the RDC had set out all its programme for the year 2017 and many communities are beginning to see the fruits of such. No school within the region is in a deplorable state; so far works have been done on District No 10 primary and nursery schools, Airy Hall Nursery school, Mortise Primary School, Cottage Nursery School, Woodley Park Secondary, Belladrum Primary and Seafield Primary, to name a few. Editor, considering the number of years the PPP/C has been in power the Belladrum Secondary School has been neglected. The coalition government has not neglected any school because of where it’s located, and we never will.
The health centres are in a super state. Many of the residents will remember the then deplorable state of the health centres within the region before 2015; it is only now that Trafalgar and Little Biaboo Health Centre employees can boast of a decent facility with living quarters. Need I remind us what would have happened in the past, where the PPP/C pulled down structures built by the then PNC government, replacing those with smaller and inferior buildings (it happened to the Belladrum Health centre).
Many roads are currently under construction and there are those which have already been built. Editor it is not of our volition that these roads were built, but because of what the people of Region 5 wanted. I invite the readers to visit Bush Lot Middle Street, south of the Public Road and Waterloo/Bath just east of the former Regional Chairman’s residence. Visit those locations, and one will be better informed about the work we are doing within the region.
To date the REO has done a fabulous job in executing our current and capital works programme. I want to further encourage him to keep up the good work, and he surely will be awarded more works to execute in 2018. My Youth Director would say to us, “The reward for hard work is more hard work.” I am proud of our pace of execution so far and would encourage others to take a page out of Mr Morrison’s book in the way he functions as REO.
Bipartisanship is a necessary objective although this does not mean criticism of the other party will be biased.
Yours faithfully,
Dolston Hutson
RDC APNU+AFC Member
