Dear Editor,
K indly permit me space in your letter column to highlight some of the developments that have taken place on the island of Wakenaam.
Over three years ago the government constructed a funeral parlour just in front of the Wakenaam Cottage Hospital at a cost of over forty million dollars. This parlour is yet to be put into use and the tiles are falling from the walls.
The doctor proceeded on maternity leave since last December and has not returned. The Medex also proceed on maternity leave in April and has not returned.
There is no replacement. Thanks to the nurse in charge, Sister Jones, the hospital is still running.
The roads on the island are made up of loam and sand. In some areas they are made up of bitumen. The government has now seen it fit to build a one hundred rods road running to a cremation site at a cost of thirteen million dollars, with asphalt all because the leader of a certain Mandir is the P P P Regional councilor.
The thirteen million dollars could have been better utilized to purchase an X-ray machine and an Ultra Sound machine for the Wakenaam Hospital.
Wakenaam has a cremation at the rate of one in a year, there is a very comfortable Crematorum situated at the Sans Souci burial ground, built by the Raviwar Sewa Satsang Mandir without any input from the government.
It is open to all who are desirous of being cremated whether they be Hindu, Christian, Rastafari, Muslim or other wise
The airstrip costing millions is yet to be put into use. This money could have been used to build better roads around the island. Recently millions have been spent on drilling a water well in Sans Souci. This too is also a failure and waste of money.
I am hoping that someone will take note and stop this wanton waste of taxpayers’s money. R. Kumar