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Apr 21, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
What has happened to the City Hall Restoration Project? As we pass by City Hall compound, we see the sprucing up of all of the contiguous edifices including the City Engineer’s and City Police buildings and the Mayoral Complex but not the City Hall building proper that is on the brink of collapse.
It was declared by Nigel Renwick, an architect, travelled from Grenada to Guyana with team mate Ihosvany De Oca Morales, to be part of the restoration project, to be in cardiac arrest since three years ago. There seems to be no haste to restore City Hall for which there remain only a few historic buildings of this kind in the region. It was noted that there are some serious climatic issues that have to be arrested very urgently or the damage would become irreversible.
Well with the May-June rainy season already upon us the impact of that weather on the further deterioration of the building will be fundamental, exacerbating an already bad situation. The then Mayor Hamilton Green that had said that the then Public Relations Officer and now Town Clerk was assiduously working to meet the deadline for creating and submitting a project proposal that they were going to sell to the United States through its embassy here, in such a manner that left the U.S. with no other choice than to award funds to help with the restoration of City Hall. Of course this project proposal was never done in a timely manner and so this opportunity went through the window.
Guyana had won the competition in the past, with the Town Hall in New Amsterdam and Castellani House being renovated using funds from the Ambassador Funds for Preservation of Culture. Instead of wasting precious funds on hare brained schemes such as presidential parks, petting zoos, setting up a special elite squad in the City Constabulary Department to lend support to the Guyana Police Force, and all the other pie in the sky projects maybe they should use the money to begin fixing City Hall before the building collapses.
Shanta Singh

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