Dear Editor,
It is being recorded that billions of dollars are spent on infrastructural development in this country, Guyana, but look around, especially on the roads and bridges and you would wonder who is fooling who, really. The residents of housing schemes especially suffer. The NDC repeats one rhetoric, ‘we don’t have control yet, it ain’t hand over to us’. Meanwhile the President scurries around at 3 and 4 o’ clock in the mornings, for what purposes, are yet to be determined. What strategy is that?
Nonetheless, his intentions could be interpreted from a press release on DPI today December 1, 2022, as he plans for the next eight years. Clearly, he forgot that the citizens of this country are living in hard times, and when push comes to shove, we will make decisions in our best interest. So, continue to dance, as the pied piper was hired to do, taking the gullible over the precipice. The second bridge to the Herstelling New Scheme was dismantled since August 2022 due to its brokenness. After months, two weeks ago work commenced for its rehabilitation. Today December 1, 2022, it is halfway completed, and work was abandoned over the last few days with boards scattered on the bridge, old rails halfway up. Appears that the monies finish and the bridge left halfway.
The third bridge is beginning to show signs similar to the faith of the second bridge. Who is monitoring the works that people are contracted to do? It is time to hold the authorities accountable, and citizens must start taking an interest in the welfare of this country, it cannot be left to the government alone, as clearly our best interest is not their concern. I would like to know, how much money was spent to have the second bridge to the Herstelling Housing Scheme completed. I would also like to know who the contractor (?) is. Without further ado, I urge the President to take his presidential entourage, and drive into the community so he can get a firsthand experience of the roadways in that same scheme, between the first bridge and the second bridge.
I also urge the residents living in other housing schemes to get proactive and highlight the conditions you are living under, so all can see. Local government elections in March 2023, I urge residents to stop voting blindly, stop party politics. The NDCs are not functioning. Drains are clogged up, parapets left for residents to clean themselves, so what are the NDCs for?
Sincerely,
Michael Persaud
Resident of Herstelling
Citizen of Guyana
