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Minister Lall needs to step it up at Diamond Housing Scheme (Cowland)
Dear Editor,
I know this issue has been ventilated on several occasions, but I do believe that those being affected by the unbelievably insensitive nature of animal owners (cows, donkeys, goats, fierce dogs….you name it) in Diamond Housing Scheme, can’t help but bring it up repeatedly.
The major concern right now is the destruction of people’s lots by arguably the country’s most healthy cows. They are massive. They are strong. They are frighteningly destructive. There have been instances when persons have had infrastructure (in one case a wall) knocked down by these ‘invaders’.
Something is not right with the fact that hundreds of cows are roaming an intended township (or at this point a residential area) and virtually destroying everything in sight, and no one can reach their owner(s) to warn about possible consequences or take appropriate action.
I am willing to bet that if some of these animals turn up dead, the owners and the authorities will suddenly display a sense of urgency to get things right. I’m not advocating this modus operandi, but I can tell you that residents of Diamond Housing Scheme are losing their cool with this disrespectful and disdainful trampling of their existence.
It doesn’t matter where you live in the Diamond Housing Scheme (be it low income or high income) you are a target of constant invasions.
Minister of Housing and Water, Irfaan Ali, has been doing a good job, with respect to ensuring that the water situation has improved significantly, so I turn to the individual who I believe is the relevant authority – Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Kellawan Lall – and ask the simple question, what is really going on?
Minister Lall, I’m not sure where you live, but it would be interesting to note that human beings are living among cows in Diamond Housing Scheme. You, Mr. Minister, need to step it up in what is fast becoming ‘Cowland’. It is totally unacceptable for the extant situation to remain as is. Something definitive must be done.
By the way, Minister Robeson Benn you are advised that all the access roads – from First Street right down to the back – need a fair degree of rehabilitation.
Maybe the media could highlight these issues.
Trampled citizen
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