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Taking from the poor and giving to the rich

Nov 28, 2012 Letters

 

 

Dear Editor,
I wish to bring this matter to the attention of the public since it is really hurting us as poor vendors selling honestly to made a living at the Charity Market Water Front area for over twenty years now.
Two very big and wealthy businessmen from Charity who are dominating and taking over Charity are influencing and pushing the Charity/Urasara NDC Chairman and the RDC Chairman of Region Two to move us out from where we are making a living to support our families and not telling us where they will put us.
These wealthy people were trying to do this with the former Regional Chairman, Mr. Alli Baksh, but they never succeeded because Mr. Baksh took a firm stand for the poor. However, the new Regional Chairman and NDC Chairman are working in concert with the wealthy people to push us out so that space can be made available for use as parking lots for the two businessmen to facilitate their businesses.
The Regional Chairman approached us (some vendors) and told us that we must move.
He asked us if we have transport for the area we occupy and whether it is our bona fide property. We tried to plead with him; we told him that we took loans from the Bank to invest in our businesses and he loudly shouted at us saying that he didn’t tell us to go and take loans.
To make matters worse, a Minister of the Government, the Regional Chairman and NDC Chairman held a meeting with the business people on how to upgrade Charity and the main topic was to remove all small vendors from the water front.
When the Minister was leaving the meeting some of us tried to speak with him and he too was very outrageous, like the Regional Chairman.
Guyanese should see what this self-proclaiming, caring Government is doing to us, who voted for them. Never again will we.
SURESH GHANI

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