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Wallowing in an anarchist and environmental cesspool
Jan 11, 2014 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
Georgetown is bombarded with an uninhibited disregard for health, etiquette and progress. We are wallowing in an anarchist and environmental cesspool.
I am referring to ubiquitous heaps of garbage in our city, which have prevailed for years and seem to be getting worse. Also, the neglect of good manners, and a disregard for the wellbeing of our fellow human beings.
I will give one example that I think epitomizes this predicament.
There is a popular nightclub in Werk-en-Rust where on a Sunday night especially, there is riotous reveling which spills out into the streets in the wee hours of Monday morning. One can hear a cacophony of voices rife with expletives. Vehicle owners drive up and down the streets, for some unknown reason, blasting their horns and with blaring music. They openly flaunt their possession of firearms, as gunshots are often heard during their fracas. Additionally, many of these people are by that time driving under the influence of alcohol.
We could easily have police in off-duty clothing, stake out these nightclubs. In this way, I think many vehicular accidents, homicides and drug dealings would be effectively prevented.
Why Sunday night is chosen as the night of the week after a holiday week-end, for such unbridled revelry, shows that many of our citizens don’t have a strong work ethic. I would think that those revelers cannot display optimum performance on Mondays, at their place of work. Some changes are necessary.
911 calls also prove to be futile. It shows the appalling nature and deterioration of our most vital social services and human resources. The responsibility for most of the ills in our society lies squarely on the shoulders of those who have been erroneously elected to serve and administrate.
Protests from the Opposition Parties, numerous articles submitted to the newspapers, and social commentary via the media over the years, have proven to be an exercise in futility. It is no surprise that we have lost noteworthy people over the decades, most of whom we will never regain. Many don’t even want to visit or to recommend Guyana as a worthy destination. Hence we will never benefit from any economic input that could have been derived from such foreign input.
Conrad Barrow
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