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$500M for city clean up…Community scrutiny needed to ensure lasting and sustainable impact – Luncheon

Jul 13, 2014 News

Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, is contending that the $1B beautification campaign, $500M of which has been allocated for Georgetown and the other $500M across Guyana, should come under the scrutiny of the community for it to be impacting.
According to Luncheon, “We must not be dismayed by the challenge. We must recognize that many good intentions line the way to hell and indeed it is the community that has to keep scrutiny on how this project evolves and the ways in which the $500M would have a lasting and sustainable impact on the environmental and other aspects of the Capital City of Georgetown.”
The Ministry of Local Government and National Development was identified as the executing agency for the $500M as opposed to the City Council.
Luncheon justified this.  “There is simply no doubt in our minds that the worst possible alternative to the Ministry of Local Government leading this effort is to repose it in the hands of this City Council.
“This City Council is a non starter; its involvement is necessary because it is a statutory body and indeed it is their obligation to undertake these works but they don’t have the environment at the City Council that causes any one of us to be confident that a $500M injection would end up precisely where it is ending up under the Ministry of Local Government.”
He said that Local Government established a committee to implement and address how the money will be expended “in Georgetown in the period remaining before the end of this fiscal year and ditto for the rest of Guyana.”
According to Luncheon at the Cabinet meeting on July 8, last, Minister of Local Government Ministry, Norman Whittaker, presented an update that highlighted to Cabinet one main feature “which was to go out and consult the eleven wards in Georgetown, the residents therein on the use of these resources being proposed by the Ministry of Local Government.”
“So over the next three weeks a range of consultations would be taking place in Georgetown at the community level to invite the attention of residence to the main features of the expenditure plan for this $500M,” said Luncheon.
He said that there is a considerable aspect of the clean-up campaign that deals with mobilization of the residence in communities where work is being done apart from the silting of canals, the silting of drains and internal roads “that will be outsourced, bidding documents, public tender for that aspect of the plan.”
Self help Community Based Organizations (CBO) Luncheon said will benefit financially from being “involved in cleaning up in their own activities.”
The other big one according to Luncheon is the Le Repentir Cemetery that the Minister of Local Government has proposed a dedicated effort to deal with three aspects of the cemetery’s rehabilitation and the consultations thereof.
According to Luncheon, “$500M in less than six months is a tall order and is indicative of the interest of Central Government in addressing these problems in Georgetown.”

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