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Please help clean Bel Air Village

Jun 19, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
I had hoped that with the hive of activities associated with Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary celebrations, Bel Air Village would have been among the sometimes neglected areas targeted for a clean up. Our hopes rose when a few months ago a host of city council workers, with tools in hand, descended on the community, ostensibly to clear the drains.
In between the elevated tones, punctuated by adjectives and verbs not found in the dictionary, some stuff was spaded and dumped at the side of the road rendering the narrow roads even narrower. This stuff was never collected. The workers, egged on by one whom I would describe as the ‘ring leader’,  refused to remove the wild eddo plants from the drains claiming that the plants “itch we skin” and that a Hymac was needed to clear the drains. Day after day the men turned up and waited for a Hymac that never came.
I called and spoke to someone at Stone Depot who referred me to someone who took notes of what I described, and explained that my complaints would be passed on to the relevant authorities. About three weeks later I called again and was assured that my complaints had been passed on…and months later, we are worse off than before! The trenches are jam-packed with wild eddo plants and grasses, and there is more grass growing by the roadside, fertilized by stuff thrown there from the trenches, that was never collected. I am slapping mosquitoes as I write. Can the residents of Bel Air expect the project to be properly completed as a matter of urgency?
C. Heywood

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