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No latrines there, please

Oct 12, 2011 Letters

 

 

Dear Editor,
I refer to the press release dated October 6, 2011 by the Pan African Movement (PAM) Guyana Branch, in which the body objected to the installation of public latrines east of the 1763 Monument, Square of the Revolution.
I wish to state that we are in sympathy with the sentiments and support the need for some action to be taken, as expressed by the P.A.M. It is an insult to the People of African descent.
These latrines distort the area where the sun rises upon the monument, which is of historical and spiritual significance. The contiguous area was intended to be kept open.
I wish to state that when this structure was first observed, the Engineer’s Department stopped its construction.
Bureaucrats from the Ministry of Culture offered an apology for not obtaining the requisite permission from the Mayor and City Council.
Apart from this cultural assault on the 1763 Monument, there is now a clear pattern that this government and its satellite agencies are operating with imperial arrogance in so far as the Capital is concerned.
On a related issue, the Ministry of Culture or those responsible did not even attempt to identify a contractor who could relate to the 1763 monument; the manner in which the contractor was identified and the cost is of course another matter.
Hamilton Green, JP.

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