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M&CC employees dumping garbage in the City
DEAR EDITOR,
On the morning of Wednesday 5th November, 2014 I witnessed a most bizarre incident, even by our ludicrous standards here in Guyana.
Three employees of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of Georgetown were dumping bins of garbage on the side of the street. Right on cue and as expected in this phantasmagoric realm we call Guyana. This occurred at the corner of Schumacher & Water Streets [behind the abandoned Co-operative Bank]. This corner and the entire block always have mountains of garbage and the stench of feces and urine is nauseating. All this takes place outside the Ministry of Human Services & Social Security.
‘Because we care!’ is the new mantra.
After being confronted by drivers and other passersby the City employees let loose a series of expletives, saying that they were told to do what they were doing. I was under the notion, now seemingly misguided, that the new town clerk and the national government were on a mission to clean up the city. As opposed to moving garbage from plain sight and dumping it on side streets.
I applaud the men who confronted these rascals and brought it to my attention in the first place. Their phone cameras caused instant panic for these ill-advised foot soldiers. Knowing full well they were in the wrong, they initially covered their faces as they realised they were being photographed.
It gave me a boost to see there are people still here actively fighting to drag this runaway-train-to-nowhere country out from the abyss, and save us further bedlam.
Mark Jacobs
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