Dear Editor,
I have a number of issues regarding what are the happenings in Lusignan and Annandale, (where my parents live). I visit these two villages quite frequently and so I can substantiate my complaints. Let me itemize with explanations and questions.
1. Trucks are driving through narrow ‘cross’ streets and these streets are sometimes a mere dam, without any kind of revetment and they are gravel covered. Hence, they are eroding and becoming narrower. I invite relevant officials to exa-mine what is obtaining in the two ‘cross’ streets in Annandale South and North. At the same time, these officials should bring along a convenient mode of transportation to remove the many garbage mountains.
2. Garbage is being collected on Mondays, sometimes once every fortnight, when only non-employed people are at home. This means that employed villagers have to find night jobs, dump their gar-bage in empty lands, or in the sideline trenches, now the resort of many. Some-times, the garbage-affected villagers are too far from these erstwhile trenches and do not have any way of taking their worm-infested barrels that far, so they use the closest empty lot.
3. A few mechanics are using the road, separating Courbane Park from Annandale North (next to the Hindu Temple), to do vehicular repairs. I suggest that they use the stretch, close to the Main Road, which was earmarked years ago for the Annan-dale Market (and even allocated for this purpose). The Government can build a shed for the mechanics and they can pay a small fee. The never-use toilet, now in disintegration, may still be rehabilitated.
4. The Annandale Market Road, leading to the Main Road, is a grave cause for concern. On the eastern side, there are two businesses and they are constantly off-loading goods from huge trucks. The damage from this kind of activity within the vicinity is a problem for pedestrians, cyclist and drivers. Plus, the stretch is a pick-up spot for taxi drivers, who park on both sides of this already damaged and narrow road and hence the problem is compounded.
I ask that Minister Nigel Dharamlall and his team pay a visit and secretly observe happenings within Lusignan and Annandale. I also invite the general media to come and do some investigative work and of course take shots and let the world see what is staining here in ‘paradise’ Guyana.
Sincerely,
Leon Moonsammy Kanhai
