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Put aside politics and clean up the city

Jul 28, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
The Environmental Community Health Organiastion (ECHO) is calling on the competent authorities to urgently address the increasingly worrying garbage situation in the city.
The existing situation is extremely embarrassing to all decent and law-abiding Guyanese and very harmful to the health of the environment. We could not continue with this situation without damaging our national reputation.
We are very surprised that garbage is left to rot on the streets as officials talk about everything else other than finding a real and workable solution to the problem.
It is almost as if communities and residents are held hostage by the authorities who appear to be quite satisfied with playing politics while citizens cry for help.
Meanwhile, accumulations are providing breeding places for mosquitoes, flies, rodents and other vectors which carry various diseases.
This coupled with a defective sewage system, rupturing its lines at different points in the city, put at risk the health of the environment and all residents.
Also, the phenomenon of climate change makes the situation an urgent one. However, residents could not just sit idly by and do nothing. They need to take action now. They should take responsibility for the state of their neighbourhoods by organising themselves into community groups and mobilize resources to protect their communities.
We believe that the situation presents residents with a good opportunity to become more involved in the governance of their communities. They should seek to participate in the decision-making process, in local democratic organs. Properly organised community groups can empower citizens not only to participate in decision-making but also to improve the natural environment of their local communities.
Nevertheless, we will welcome the day when those, who were entrusted with the responsibility to protect and preserve the environment can put aside politics and meet the expectations of the all citizen.
Georgina Lewis
Coordinator of Echo clubs

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