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This takes away one’s patriotism and puts a seal on progress

Dec 18, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
This is a wonderful country; it has great potential…its people, its systems everything. However, there are a few things in this country that disgust me. When you built your house how long did it take you? Mr. Irfan Ali when you built your home how long did it take you? Mr. Jagdeo when you built your house how long did it take you?
Do you want to know how long it’s taking me? I don’t know, because for 28 painstaking months…that’s right 28 months…the paper work cannot be completed.
It is disgusting when someone in an office is being paid to do a task and they behave as if they are doing you a favour. I have been living in my home for about 50 years now since my father bought it and about three years ago I started the paper work to get it into my name and rebuild.
To this day I cannot proceed with the construction of my home. From judges being on strike to coming back to work to going on leave to Lands and Surveys Registry, who signs documents in their own time to the local NDC now to the Central Housing and Planning Authority.
Sometimes I regret that I opted to take the legal route and do things the right way because it seems as if everyone is looking for a bribe. It is disgusting, it is annoying, it takes away your patriotism and it puts a seal on progress. Can Mr. Irfan Ali kindly let me know how long it will take for the Central Housing and Planning Authority to approve my building plan?
Can he also tell me when a person goes on leave why the person acting for them cannot sign a document…are they that incompetent or are the ones they are acting for that power hungry?
H. R. Yusuf

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