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The proud declaration by the Road Safety Council

Jun 20, 2013 Letters

 

DEAR EDITOR,
The proud declaration by the National Road Safety Council of a multi-year strategy to address safety on Guyana’s roads is a most welcome, albeit much belated, development.
That the ‘strategy’ had to be composed (if not imposed) with external help is, however, not necessarily a compliment to local common sense and capacity to deal with obvious and basic deficits in road transport management in Guyana, notwithstanding the gratuitous reference to the participation of ‘stakeholders’, who presumably would have included the identifiably major private sector companies, and other entrepreneurs; some of whose vehicles ply our under-engineered routes round-the-clock.
But better late than never!
Amongst others, the mothers of over-run children, the pedestrian who has survived the recklessness of a drunk driver, the medical and para-medical personnel who have to attend unnecessary injuries caused by motorists who access licences without being properly trained and validly certified, may wonder who represented their interests in the crafting of the ‘strategy’ and: in the process, must also wonder why in the instance of this visionary strategy, whether it was also necessary to have the same agency, donate exorbitant funds for a separate (and almost) exclusive programme for education of and public relations for, transporters and passengers only on the West Coast of Demerara.
The more attentive might detect an indication of schizophrenia!
E. B. John

 

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