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Apr 28, 2012 Letters

 

 

DEAR EDITOR,
Well, we are doing it again with taxpayers’ dollars. Strange, but we have not learned from the mistakes of others. The political blame game continues, and my hard earned taxes do little or nothing to comfort me on how it is spent.
I recently took notice of the road works being done on the East Bank of Demerara, and if I have it right, it is another road that is being built, but just adjacent to the present one.
What has happened to all the land in our backdams and canefields? Again, there was very little if any consultation by the people in authority with the general public. The media itself has done no justice to the issue at hand.
Do a survey of how people would like to see their taxes spent and I am sure it will be revealed that having still one road link into town is ridiculous for a country of this size. As I have written previously, many people coming from the Ancient County would love to bypass the city all together.
Well, I know that most of the bridges on the East Bank were broken and reconstructed not long ago. Well now I see most with severe waves on them. Please don’t tell me that my tax dollars are going to pay for substandard work. Hope the contractors are held liable and moreover, some parts, if not the entire agreement in the contract should be published.
A recent debate has arisen concerning tourism and how the new Marriott Hotel and upgrading the airport would affect it. Well if you don’t fix the garbage in the city, and level our paves so that they are not a constant tripping hazard to the very tourists we are looking to have as guests, then we are going nowhere.  It will just be a big airport and a big hotel.
Tourism is held together on a number of things which include certain basic services, of which include a proper and reliable transportation system, clean environment for people to really stop and have a look, being able to shop using credit cards, acceptance of other currencies US, Canadian, TT, etc., just to mention a few. Of the few things listed, how many do we have functioning in good capacity? Just saying.
N. Lynch

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