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The shocking extent of our indecency and desecration of the city of Georgetown

Dec 01, 2012 Letters

 

 

Dear Editor,
Another year will soon be gone and Guyanese are still left with the burdens of immorality, lawlessness, clogged drains, vagrants, junkies, flooding and tons of garbage in the once-upon-a-time Garden City of Georgetown and across the land of many waters. The extent of our indecency has reached so high that every moment of the day someone can be seen either defecating of urinating publicly.
Over the past decade this situation has been nurtured by prominent individuals whose objectives are politically aligned and self-advanced while property owners, businessmen and businesswomen, and conscious-minded persons strive to curb this appalling reality by expending billions of dollars, time and energy.
We all have travelled overseas and I have personally visited numerous cities in all of the continents of this world; however it is unfortunate for me to classify Georgetown, Guyana, South America as the most awful of all.
In this struggle, we must acknowledge and be very thankful to H.E. Brent Hardt, Ambassador of the United States of America, for initiating and sustaining the “Pick It Up Campaign” in an effort to return the capital city to a state of pride. I urge each Guyanese to support this initiative.
Nevertheless, each year property owners and business establishments are forced to remit to City Hall large sums of money in dues, rates and taxes, while most of us would never witness our garbage or drains being cleared by employees of City Hall. Instead, we would only hear of millions of dollars in budgetary shortfall, employees’ strikes and non-payment of salaries, accusations of corruption and the demand of more government subventions.
The time has come for property owners, businessmen and businesswomen, and conscious-minded persons to join in the call for Local Government Elections and endeavour to put in office and authority persons whose intentions and objectives are focused on accountability, justice, real development of a City and improving the sanitation in Georgetown.
Additionally, I am appealing for the immediate response from the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown and the Ministry of Local Government for the removal of garbage, coconut shells and filth which continues to be dumped along Lombard, and in Bugle Street, Werk-en-Rust, (behind the former Guyana National Cooperative Bank building), and the de-silting of the drains along Lombard Street, Werk-en-Rust, and the City of Georgetown at large. This area, along with the entire capital, continues to be flooded with the minimum amount of rainfall, thus causing great inconvenience, loss of business, chaos and confusion to entrepreneurs, pedestrians, and hindered movement for school children, as well as shutting down of Schools, Government Ministries and Agencies.
I have made endless phone calls and sent countless letters since 2005 on this escalating situation and continue to appeal for a sustainable mechanism to be implemented to curb this atrocious act exercised by the coconut vendors, their helpers and staff from the Cleansing Department of City Hall.
Unfortunately, to-date very little has been done. In the interim, many business owners and residents continue to bear the burdensome expenses to maintain the state of cleanliness around their respective premises.
I reiterate my appeal to the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown and the Ministry of Local Government to be accountable to taxpayers, exercise justice and clean the areas as emphasized above, while implementing an effective, sustainable and efficient way in dealing with the coconut vendors and the villains who continue to violate the Laws of Guyana and desecrate the city of Georgetown.
Nazar Mohamed
Managing Director
Mohamed’s Enterprise

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