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Municipal buildings are dying
Dear Editor;
One wonders why the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown are allowing their historic, beautiful and significant buildings being left to go to rack and ruin.
A City’s cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations.
For the last twenty one years under the Mayorship of Hamilton Green who claims to be a history buff, absolutely nothing was done to maintain the majestic City Hall structure where they all sat in arguing about frivolous things each and every day. It is now a sight for a sore eye.
But over the last year, the present administration led by the Town Clerk has been wasting hundreds of millions of dollars building Presidential Parks, Petting Zoos, New Stalls outside the Bourda Market etc, whilst the Abattoir is left as most unsafe, unhealthy and in an atrocious condition.
The City Constabulary Training School and Municipal Stores Bond are in a most shameful condition, whilst the Solid Waste Department Building on Princes Street should be torn down and the rotting wood fed to the fire at the same ‘Old Smokey’ chimney in the compound.
The Public Health Building on South Road hardly has working windows, a facility where pre and post natal care is given. It is criminal that the administration be allowed to fritter away the property rates diligently paid by property owners, whilst the Council workers are made to work in appalling conditions that animals should not be subjected to. The question here is why put down Presidential Parks, when your hard working staff are forced to work under the most inhumane conditions.
Every media house, the Social Protection Ministry, the labour unions, and other relevant entities should visit those work places, and have a first-hand look at these locations. Then the city officials should let the public know where all the millions are going.
Amber Valentine
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