Plea to Kaieteur News to help Guyana

Mar 25, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
I believe Kaieteur News to be a forceful politically non-aligned paper. Given that perspective, I shall like to see your paper do the following:
1. From different sources that I’ve read, Georgetown is currently undergoing a major cleanup. If Georgetown returns to the nauseating grime, filth and stench of the last fifteen to twenty years, after Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary, Kaieteur News must expose it.
Further on grime, stench and filth, two of the most revoltingly choked and sickening drainage gutters were those under Camp Street, between Church and Croal Street. One of the gutters was close to the old Kissoon Furniture Store on Camp Street (think a bank might be there now), while the other was in the vicinity of the Citizens’ Bank on Croal Street. Currently, I live in the USA but, when I was in Guyana, I saw people use the alleyways where the two gutters under discussion are to defecate. People did the same on Merriman Mall. One reason for the unsightly, unhygienic defecation was that no one wanted to use the unspeakably horrible public bathrooms in the Stabroek and Bourda markets.
Kaieteur News must carry regular reports on the condition of the two gutters and alleyways mentioned (and others) and on the condition of the public bathrooms in the markets and elsewhere around the city.
2. People being murdered for their money or other property is a major scourge in Guyana, and Kaieteur News must let the government know about. Keep the pressure on the police for them to act. Keep pressure on the government, too, for them to act to keep citizens safe, whether that means regularly making changes to the top brass of the police force or constitutional changes to allow the army to fight crime also.
I’m conscious, though, that the police and the army alone cannot fight crime in any country – families, churches and other organizations must also be involved. Therefore, in addition to the pressure on government and the police, I’d like to see Kaieteur News lead the charge to get all religious faiths (that is if you accept my point) to work together to develop programmes to collar crime. I’d also like Kaieteur News to form family groups throughout Guyana, where parents can get help with raising their children to be good citizens, not criminals. Of course, Kaieteur News can publish regular articles on rearing children, but parents meeting for talks/discussions would be more effective. Truth is, some parents may be illiterate.
3. I lived in Festival City from December,1972 to August,1988, before I migrated. The Georgetown City Council collected garbage for the year 1973. Thereafter, we had to either bury or burn or garbage, while paying rates and taxes! Is there anything more unfair than that? And forget about having to get up at two and three in the morning to get water to wash dishes and clothes and to bathe! (Showers weren’t possible due to low pressure, so one had to fill a bucket and dip from it with a bowl to bathe.)
Kaieteur News must ensure that the citizens of Georgetown get their water supply, have their garbage removed and get everything else they should for paying their rates and taxes.
Walk good.
Roy Brummell

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