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Leguan residents call on Gov’t to address worries
All does not appear well on the small Essequibo island of Leguan, as according to the islanders, not much is being done by the Regional Administration to put them out of their miseries.
Following a recent visit to the island, Alliance For Change (AFC) Councilor in Region Three, Harry Narine Deokinanan described the location as being problem-plagued.
He explained that the island’s roads have deteriorated to the extent they have become impassable. Some of the schools are also in a deplorable condition.
Bags are used to keep the rain out of the Morshee Primary School00
Deokinanan, during an interview with Kaieteur News, pointed out that the Maryville Primary School seems to have the most problems.
Kaieteur News made contact with a few of the islanders who maintained that the biggest problems remain those facing the schools.
This newspaper was told that the Maryville school building has a number of missing windows and floorboards while electric wires continue to dangle from the ceiling.
These continue to be a major learning hazard for students, especially when it rains.
“Who does live in a house with no windows? How can you put students and teachers to learn and work in an environment like that? When de rain fall, de pickney dem does gah fuh shift dem things away from the window, and I was told that it many cases when it raining very hard, the teachers does have to stop teach,” a resident who asked not to be named told this newspaper.
The man explained that often times, the problems that are faced by the people of Leguan are not being dealt with as they should.
“We does complain and complain and complain, but dem nah do nothing. Nobody nah care about we over here, because it look like we nah people ova here,” the resident said.
He noted that since the Regional authorities aren’t doing much to put the islanders out of their worries, it is only fair that Central Government intervenes.
“We need help and somebody got to come forward. Me nah have no problem with the government, because dem nah mussy even know wah ah go on ova here,” he declared.
Meanwhile, it was explained that apart from the rain being a mere inconvenience, there are also parts of the school building that pose as a health threat for the students and teachers.
“Inside the school, they got electrical wires dangling from the ceiling. This is not how it’s supposed to be. That is a school, we have dozens of young children attending the institution,” Deokinanan stressed.
He added that even the solar energy equipment, which was installed at the school some three years ago, remains dysfunctional.
This, Deokinanan said, is because nobody has been employed to service and operate the contraption.
“The teachers at the school are all females, and with that, there isn’t anybody on staff there who can operate the solar energy equipment, so it just sits there without being used.”
When contacted yesterday, one of the four teachers from the Maryville Primary School said that the biggest challenge for those spending hours at the school, is the fact that majority of the windows are missing.
“This is a cause for bats and owls to fly into the classes and dirty it and so. So that really is our major problem,” the teacher said.
She noted however, that the solar equipment is usually operated by an employee of the Region, but because of some inconvenience, the man has not showed up at the school for a while.
The Maryville Primary School teacher also maintained that the roads need to be repaired, as it has been an inconvenience to many residents and students.
The Morshee Primary School is also another one without windows. However, the persons at that school have resorted to using “salt bags” to prevent the rain and sun from hindering their school work.
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