Even jumbies have more commonsense than these

Nov 15, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

There is a street named UG Access Road. At the junction of the Railway Embankment and UG Access Road, going west, on the southern side of the embankment road, a new housing scheme was started in 1995 by Guysuco for its senior employees.
As years went by, Guysuco personnel sold their plots. I bought one of those units and built a home there. The only structure I own. From UG Access Road to the Caricom Secretariat, there are thirteen front homes in that suburb, meaning that those houses face the Railway Embankment, further meaning that the draining trench lies in front of these structures.
After the 13th unit, there is no trench. It was filled up and replaced by an underground tunnel. In that area lie the Caricom Secretariat and the Convention Centre.
Monday last, the Ministry of Works sent a crew to start weed-cleaning from the trench. They always do that when there is an international event at the Convention Centre involving foreign leaders. The assembly began working from the UG Access Road to conclude at the house next to the Caricom Secretariat. I am the second-to-last unit going west. This means you meet me, then, my neighbour then the trench ends.
If the workers start from UG Access Road then the last item to be looked at would be my neighbour to the west of my home
On Wednesday, the operation was completed. Only one area was not attended to – outside my home. Here is where logic and commonsense come in. How did the workers get past my home and clear my neighbour’s trench? It is not possible. Once you start from the UG Access Road you have to meet me before arriving at my western neighbour. Robeson Benn had the answer to the impossible and for this he should be given the Nobel Prize in physics.
According to Benn, the operation was a two-prong attack. One group would start from the first house at the UG Access Road sweeping all homes going west. Another batch would begin the effort from my neighbour going east
Where is the commonsense of the PPP Parliamentarians who said they didn’t believe the Government was vindictive? If a team of cleaners descended on the trench and began clearing operation from Monday morning then the second house to be completed would have been mine.
I repeat for Messrs. Benn and Jagdeo to read. I am the second house from the Caricom Secretariat. Workers had to touch my neighbour next to the Secretariat then move on to my building. Are the PPP leaders blind? The front page of the Kaieteur News tells the entire story.
The landscape was impeccably done and only my part of the trench was left standing.
Robeson Benn should resign if he cannot offer an explanation about the reason for the group that began at my neigbour’s home skipping my plot. The picture on the Kaieteur News was graphic; a completely cleared trench except the section outside my dwelling. To conclude then, if one accepts Benn’s explanation, then my pathway should have been done since Monday morning because (and I will emphasize the word second) my home is the SECOND one going east from the Secretariat.
Finally, cleaners are finished for the day. Good! Then they resume where they left off. All trench cleaners do this. Even morons know this except our rulers. Why draw a perfect cut-off line where I live? It is idiotic and asinine and downright foolish for any human being to say that when the day was done only my unit was left standing because the workers had clocked out.
Why was my section not cleaned when operations began since Monday right next door to me?
Remember there was a picketing exercise outside Khemraj Ramjattan’s office for several days and all (I repeat) ALL the picketers were African Guyanese. Remember a man threw a miasmic substance in my face. He was African-Guyanese. Remember a goon squad tried to prevent me from speaking at an academic conference. They were ALL African-Guyanese.
Now they put a group of workers to denounce me to say that I didn’t speak to them and that they didn’t know I was living there and it is not true that they skipped my surroundings. These people’s faces were on the front page of the Chronicle and on NCN television.
ALL, (I repeat), ALL were African Guyanese who were willing participants in the Government’s game even though there were Indian workers too. But the Indians were never made to face the camera to tell lies.

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