Whip these people for destroying Guyana’s heritage

May 13, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,

I was reading a newspaper and I saw an article captioned Linden Monuments with photographs of two locomotive shells among others. Where are the engines of these equipment and the carriages that the locomotives used to haul bauxite from the mines to the bauxite plant? The engines are somewhere working as a gold dredger in the interior and the carriages cut up and sold as scrap metal. Now speaking of scrap metal, I would like to know who gave the O.K to cut up the 1300 and the 1260 walking draglines and also the bucket and wheel of the excavator.
Sir, these two draglines were two of the largest in the world and I can’t think of somebody doing something so stupidly outrageous as to cut up these equipment and sell them as scrap metal. I was wondering if the individual was watching a movie titled “For a few dollars more”. Those machines should have been placed in a location and be protected. It could be used as machinery of a mining museum especially for tourists and school children around the country.
Sir, who is the person who did such a wicked thing? I’m sorry that our country doesn’t have whipping laws because I think that person deserves such, he/she should be tried and whipped for destroying such heritage of bauxite workers. For example, I was in a barber shop talking to some friends while another guy was reading his papers when the topic of the 1300 dragline came up and this guy literally burst into tears because he was an ex-employee of same and lots of other people carry the same sentiments. Sir, we cannot allow people to be destroying our heritage just to full their pockets and hurting people in the process.
Derrick Bacchus

Discover more from Kaieteur News

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

Latest News