Govt.’s cockeyed view of progress

Oct 14, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Once again I am compelled to pen another letter like many others for the entire nation to not just know but to understand the true meaning of progress in this beautiful Guyana of ours.
Building or refurbishing a few health centres, schools, bridges, roads, cleaning a few drains in a few selected communities cannot be classified as progress. This government definition of progress is most shameful. And then again they don’t have any moral standings or moral values.
All that we had had prior to them in government have all deteriorated. They have placed more emphasis on fulfilling their pocket with money than moral values and development of the nation.
Mr. Editor, the nation at large must know that all the centres, schools, bridges, roads etc that the PPP/C claimed they have done; the cost did not come from their pocket.
There are so many communities still without portable drinking water, proper roads, health workers in many of these health centres, and the list go on an on. All that billions and millions which they have borrowed to build these infractures, it is the tax payers who having had deductions made from their salaries have to pay back this money.
So the President and his cohorts can brag all they want, this is a must for them. As they take our money they must at least try to show the nation what they are doing with it, even though millions of tax payers’ money end up in either their pockets or their cronies.
It is also a shame on the government’s part not to assist the Georgetown City Council with whatever money they need to help in the maintenance of the city. The revenue base of the city is not adequate.
The government failed to realise that when the preparatory work was done of which the city would have collected its revenue, no one would have envisaged the magnitude of obstacles the council would have faced. Having said that, it is the view of many that it is a requirement of the government to return to the Council a substantive sum each month from the Value Added Tax (VAT) resources which they collect from the businesses and others who operate within the city and stop operating as though the council has to beg them for what is a rightful share of theirs.
I also wish to bring to the attention of all those supports of the PPP/C; it is this said party who said Guyana will be a better place under their rule. Well, from statistic provided, you are the ones who are running each day from this country. There is an old saying, “….if you can’t bear cut and run”. I am assuming that you have had enough that’s why you are on the run. And for those who can’t afford to run will and is “……stay and bun”.
As for the Minister of Public Works, take note what’s happening to the judge and the former attorney general, all that which they have done, the court was their last resort.
Kirtley A. Williams

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