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Incompetence following Sheik Baksh wherever he goes
Dear Editor,
It seems that everywhere Sheik Baksh goes he is followed by incompetence. He was at the Ministry of Housing, presiding over an entity that was in the news everyday for all the wrong reasons. Then he took over the Ministry of Education and the same thing happened; who can forget the “No child left behind” policy, which was rightly overturned by his successor.
Now he heads the Guyana Water Inc. and despite government’s boasts of increased provision of potable water to citizens, the water situation in Guyana is getting worse with every passing day. Let’s take my community of Melanie Damishana on the East Coast of Demerara for example.
I’ve lived there since the early 1990s and have never experienced been subjected to the poor service that I am currently experiencing. A few months ago, the GWI carried out a disconnection campaign in the area, cutting off supply to several households for non payment of water rates. I have no problem with that; but what I have a problem with is that after paying to have the water supply restored, GWI customers are now receiving a lower water pressure than they enjoyed before their water supply was cut off. We now have to fetch water I buckets even into our single flat homes. It is as if we are being punished twice. And to make matters worse, for the past two weeks we are now only receiving water for a few hours a day. Previously the pump at Melanie was turned on a little before six 0’clock in the mornings, giving workers enough time to have a bath before they leave for work. On a normal basis the water supply will cut off at eight giving us day workers enough time to get things done.
Now within the past two weeks, the water comes on at seven in the mornings if at all and then it goes off after an hour.
Is this the 21st century? No one is telling us what the problem is or how long we will have to live like we are back in the 1980s. Now the water company will want to blame the GPL, but I am not buying that! The GWI has been blaming GPL for decades now.
Can’t the GWI get it right? I made several queries at the Melanie Damishana GWI office and no one could give me a proper explanation; it’s as if the workers there are doing us a favour. Come on GWI, unlike in the 1980s, we are paying for water now!
Angry Resident
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