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Jan 18, 2014 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
There is an issue that is causing the residents of Santa Rosa, Moruca much discomfort and anger.
Over a year ago, work got underway on the rehabilitation of the Kumaka-San Jose Bridge and Dam. To date this capital project on the Region One RDC’s 2013 budget is incomplete. This bridge and dam is vital for the livelihood of residents and safe passage of patients and schoolchildren and the haphazard manner of the works has left the dam in a slushy state, this being further exacerbated by the incessant rainfall being experienced here currently.
This project to the best of my knowledge has gone through two phases, with the first phase costing 29 million Guyana dollars and the second, 15 million; these the utterances of Regional and Local Government Ministry officials. What is evident is the sloppy and slapdash incomplete work and plundering of taxpayers’ money.
The present bridge has raw edges and rails that look like they belong to a cattle ranch and the slushy dam points to scant disregard for human beings. No less than the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government stated that the Kumaka-San Jose bridge and dam was near completion at a press conference as reported in the dailies.
I am calling on this same Permanent Secretary, the Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Minister of Local Government et al to tell the people of Santa Rosa, Moruca, why this project cannot be completed as yet!
As a human being, I find this blatant disrespect and disregard for my basic human rights; unacceptable in a supposedly democratic country!
Region One officials are simply disappointing and have no bark much less a bite in this fiasco.
There has to be a way to sanction the defaulting contractors and if the engineers are at fault sanction them too!
I am seeing clearly that corruption, nepotism and cronyism are criteria for being awarded projects in this country. Sad, really.
We are waiting for this project to be completed and commissioned for close to one year now.
The wait continues.
Steve La Rose
Resident
Santa Rosa, Moruca

 

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