I cried when I heard these descriptions

Feb 25, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
Permit me space to not only transmit laudatory remarks but at the selfsame time reciting silent orisons for permanency or continuation. I am referring to the present clean-up in Guyana in preparation for the imminent 50th anniversary celebrations.
Am I naïve in asking why could some of this not be done before? As a Guyanese now domiciled on foreign shores, I was previously on myriad of occasions forced to listen to the myriad of unabashed remarks about the once former Garden City. I was always (and still am) proud of the land of my birth, and often boasted to many of the sights and splendor of the place. However, when native after native returned from visiting their former homeland, reporting of the garbage strewn streets and alleyways, overgrown bushes, ill-maintained trenches and gutters, edifices that cried out for a paint application or a new face look, I was forced to let the silent tear flow unchecked down my cheek, while trying to wrap my brain around likely causal factors.
Seemingly the folks back home had become inured to the revolting sight, but could the Government, Mayor and other officials be included by extension? Now here we are putting a show on the go for the multiplicity of visitors, natives etc. some of whom would be returning home for the first time after many years, although confessedly there is a lurking angst as to what would have been the state of affairs if the celebrations were not taking place this year? Better late than never I guess or is it better soon than ever? The past is the past, we are now on the road to the change that is somewhat tardy to say the least but nevertheless, it was what it was. So we prepare to celebrate our country’s independence from Great Britain, let us as a nation resolve to not only show but maintain our greatness. I am calling on the Government, City officials, to put in place personnel, police, people, policies, procedures, protocols, penalties to ensure that the city as it would be seen during the Independence Celebrations would be the continuing norm. Punish all who display any proclivity to let the land lose its glitter on account of litter.
Yvonne Sam.

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