Dear Editor,
Yesterday’s Stabroek News Editorial titled “Human dignity in cash grant programme” is useful reading for every Guyanese. For me, it points to a very serious weakness in the Ali-Jagdeo administration that instead of genuine consultation we are relying heavily on a well-staffed propaganda outfit. Over the holidays, I give examples I encountered in this area.
One, a young forty-two years old constabulary rank who has a five year old sickle-cell daughter, has to find nine thousand dollars every month to purchase drugs not available at any of the public institutions. This is typical where individuals are offered cheap substitutes for survivors of a life threatening condition.
As an elderly person, people in my community, Lodge Housing Scheme/ Meadow Brook, are yet to receive this one hundred thousand dollars, which the President promised before Christmas. I would have thought some system would have been implemented to satisfy this talk of justice so that high paid salaried employees would not receive the same sum as the folks who are truly in need.
Next, we are told that the new Demerara Harbour Bridge will not be completed as previously stated because time is needed for the concrete to settle. Why is the Government continuing to insult our intelligence? Time for settling of concrete and other factors are things that should have been taken into account before the earlier announcement of a completion date. The bridge is not like building a fowl-pen and in a well ordered society the persons who fixed a completion date, apparently without taking into account the time for the settlement of concrete, should be disciplined because of technical and engineering incompetence.
Sincerely,
Hamilton Green
Elder
