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The days when Amerindians were fooled and taken for granted are over

Mar 07, 2015 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I recently visited a number of hinterland communities in Region Nine, including the village of Aishalton in the Deep South. The pace of development in the communities visited is very much in evidence. The time taken to travel from Lethem to Aishalton by trail is considerably reduced, thanks to regular maintenance works done by the regional administration.
Most of the communities now have lights powered by diesel generators or solar panels. These villages have taken on a new appearance with the several infrastructural works undertaken by the PPP/C administration. New nursery, primary and secondary schools, health centres and huts, learning resource centres and recreational facilities, have literally changed the landscape in almost all Amerindian and hinterland communities.
Region Nine has seen the construction of several new secondary schools, including at Aishalton, Annai and Sand Creek, with dormitory facilities to cater for students from the outlying villages. Our Amerindian children are doing much better in school today. The performance gap between hinterland schools and those on the coast have been greatly reduced.
Residents are highly appreciative of the developmental projects undertaken by the PPP/C regime, despite attempts by the opposition parties to block funding for several other interventions including land titling, solar panels and the development of information and communication technology.
It is clear that there has been a significant reduction in the developmental gap between Amerindian communities and the rest of the country, thanks to vastly improved information and communication infrastructure and the massive infrastructural works undertaken by the PPP/C administration.
Cell phones have now become commonplace in several communities, which makes it much easier for information-sharing and processing.
The days when Amerindians were fooled and taken for granted are over, and no amount of opposition propaganda can erase the fact that the quality of life among the Amerindian and hinterland communities are today much better than under the previous PNC regime.
True enough there are still many challenges to overcome, but it is not the power to achieve but the will to conquer that matters.
Hydar Ally

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