We are a sad and sorry State crying for change

Nov 20, 2014 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
As the Nation of Guyana continues to imbibe at the fountain of disregard for decency and justice, the report by the Hon. Ombudsman, related to the New Building Society (NBS) and the dismissal of Mr. Arjoon is welcome.
Every right-thinking citizen needs to compliment Justice Moore for a job well done. This is particularly refreshing, since it is the advent (with due regard to the upcoming Season) of an important institution in our society after a lapse of over a decade. .
I have no doubt that those with financial expertise and the media will deal with the many unhappy things surrounding this examination of Mr Arjoon being put to the sword. We have a picture which shows an Honourable Minister failing to respond to the Ombudsman on a critical issue. Persons who refuse to cooperate with the Ombudsman should be placed behind bars, after all we are talking about very large sums of our money; those guilty of covering up, likewise, need to face incarceration. This should also allow for a full investigation of the way State funds are used and not properly accounted for— —NIS, NICIL, Tenders, GINA, the list is long.
Of great interest in so far as revelations in this NBS matter are concerned, is how the vital documents from the Police just vanished. But what was not the subject taken to the Ombudsman was the beginnings to the Berbice Bridge, and the public needs to be reminded thus. The Berbice Bridge was birthed by its political midwife in a delivery room clouded in deceit, darkness and discrimination.
An earlier study I know of, identified the locations of Ithaca on the west bank, and Sisters Village on the east bank of the Berbice River.
(1) The soils on both sides were firm and therefore favourable for construction works
(2) The river narrowed at that point meaning a shorter span to be built. Therefore less cost.
(3) Both sides had existing communities to support the project and also benefit from this major development. It is the latter which apparently presented the Jagdeo administration with a problem. You see the residents of Sisters and Ithaca were considered strong supporters of the ruling party; so our new ‘massas’ selected a site nearer the mouth of the river, wider, and as we recall, offered serious technical challenges. The result: the bridge cost many more millions, and now all of us – including their erstwhile supporters – must pay a large sum to use this Berbice Bridge, compared to the Demerara Harbour Bridge.
We are a sad and sorry State crying for change.
Hamilton Green J P
Mayor of Georgetown

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