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A clean Guyana reflects you; what is your reflection?

Jun 04, 2015 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
It overwhelms my conscience to see Guyanese in their numbers aiding in making their homes a better place, to make their communities cleaner and by extension ‘restore’ our  nation to its former beauty.  Kudos to you all.
There has been an awakening of the masses. However the question still remains; why now? Why only now are there ‘clean initiatives’ coming from the average citizen? Whichever direction these clean up actions do take, why has it never been done before?
Regardless of the authority above us, clean surroundings should be radical. Our mere existence in these places should encourage us to keep it clean. How did the garbage get there in the first place? We are the ones who littered here and there; we are the ones who don’t teach our young to be responsible with our refuse; we are the ones who see each other litter and say or do nothing about it.
Acceptance of this is failing us and excuses prevail, but that is the truth about garbage in our nation, and we have always been the prime contributors in some way.
Whatever remedial work we are doing now corresponds to our own benefits and I greatly hope that these actions are sustained to see a truly better nation. Let us not clean because of certain ‘favourable’ conditions, just keep it clean for YOU, do it for yourself.
And to those who have always been cleaning (yes such people do exist) regardless, then be at ease that your efforts will not be in vain, your parapets will no longer be littered and your drains will no longer be clogged. Well at least that’s how it seems, let’s hope for the best.
A clean Guyana reflects you; what is your reflection?
Nafeeza Khan

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