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Mar 30, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
I laughed so hard that I almost fell out of my hammock when I read Royston King’s most recent letter to the press enumerating his earth moving achievements over the last eight months. Clearly, this fellow was not prepared to await the blandishment of the citizens at large who are supposed to be the recipients of this largesse, but who seemed to be taking too long in coming forward with applauses, so he decided to ‘Toot his own horn’ as they would say here in Guyana.
King in the story of his life as Town Clerk, failed to highlight his access to hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions with the Government first gifting him close to four hundred million and then most recently another one hundred million coupled with the hundreds of millions made from the amnesty. Surely, it does not require any genius to begin to fix our capital with those bucket loads of cash.
The Town Clerk speaks so glowingly of the projects that he has undertaken which would be routine and expected work in most, if not all other cities. But then again, when the bar is set so low, any and every thing would seem like heaven coming down to earth.
What King was careful to avoid in his self-tribute was how many laws and regulations were severely bent or broken to earn these glorious achievements including ignoring tender board procedures, financial regulations of Guyana, the featherbedding of the payroll, the unrefined encouragement of nepotism, cronyism and favouritism, the implementing of draconian rents on vendors, the racking up an overdraft of three hundred million dollars, and the incurring of a huge debt on the Georgetown Municipality by taking on credit of tens of millions of dollars in building materials etc.
The achievements listed by King would hardly qualify Georgetown as being one the best cities in the world to live in, and one would have hoped to see more advanced and modern initiatives being undertaken like we see happening in the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean.
How about establishing a municipal swimming pool, constructing a modern municipal shopping centre and relocating the vendors there, constructing multi-layered municipal parking in the downtown area to alleviate the traffic situation in the city, placement of bicycle lanes to encourage more people to get out of their cars and ride, having well lit streets, proper roads without potholes , a new abattoir to safely and hygienically process meat, a well policed city for better security, eradication of mosquitoes in the city to reduce incidents of dengue, zika malaria, filariasis, West Nile virus, chikungunya, yellow fever, etc, creating a more green environment and I could go on and on.
It is hardly time for King and his cabal to be patting themselves on their backs, but rather they need to get cracking as the journey to make Georgetown the city it ought to be, has only just begun. One gets the impression that he believes he is doing the citizens a favour rather that his duty.
Amber Valentine

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