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Oct 27, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
This article is in responce to a letter appearing in your paper. My Region Ten Democratic Council colleague recently wrote an article giving much credit for illusive development works here. The writer should know what is happening in Linden as we together sit on the Region’s Tender Board, Works Committee and are councillors.
The current political ineptitude and “kleptocracy” have produced a national demented race of people, among them  writers, farmers and hustlers undocumented in the annals of Guyanese history. When people start believing their own lies and conjectures,
then as Brother Bob says “ total destruction is the only solution”. Region Ten, from all indication,  has been singled out for systemic underdevelopment. I am not privy to the numbers submitted by my RDC councillor but i am obligated on behalf of the Linden /Region Ten residents to respond to this hapless journey of lies and more lies.
All human behaviour is driven by an instinct to fulfil one or more basic human needs. Abraham Maslow developed a hierarchy of needs model in the 1940/1950sin the USA.
Government ‘s activities, from a human political and economic platform, enhances or satisfies these basic human needs Anything contrary is an indictment of failure and political vagrancy. Region Ten, during the ‘ bad old days “ was never relegated to being a town of the unemployed, a town where people depend on hand outs,  where the locals have to await the Section circus coming to town to have a patchwork of projects that dont fit into a development plan or programme .
Regional development programme falls under four programmes namely -Education, Public works, health and finance.
Briefly lets walk a bit. Hold your breath, the picture is frightening. What has become of Region Ten since these millions are being spent?
Public works: Region  Ten is a place of crumbing infrastructure . The patchwork of chipsealed roads has transformed us into a lunar-like conclave, cracks, holes and life threatening agony.  Ours is a town where the administration does a Nicodemian excursion, leaves a few handouts and disappears.
Years ago the region boasted of two fully functioning hospitals. The objective was access, low cost treatment but a healthy people. Guess it will take Jessica Fletcher to locate these millions the writer so backwardly boasted of.
Not long ago Amelia’s Ward and Block endured the invasion of foreign contractors for the purpose of road building. Some of the millions the councillor wrote about were expended. The leptocrats assembled like flies to a carcass.
I would invite the Works Committee member to visit these locations because the completed roads are more dangerous that the ones that were there. It is a nightmare to travel on foot or by vehicle in these locations.
Never in the history of local human development could men and women of “sound minds” preside over such decadence and administrative malfeasance.
Finally, the basic human needs of the residents await “CHANGE”, await a renaissance, an inflow of God’s power, a people of God fearing nature, time to heal and grow, time to be humans again .
The scars of underdevelopment have also affected the hundreds of youths who have just left school and are drifting aimlessly across the region looking for jobs, for a sense of belonging to something permanent.
Mr Editor, Region Ten is in trouble along with all of Guyana.The apologists are finding it more challenging to explain human misery, corruption and a fallen people only found in times of war and disaster.
I have trust in God. I await the imminent God propelled changes, where respect for humanity is paramount, where leaders are God-fearing, where the rule is law is applied to all.
Renis Morian,
RDC Region Ten

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