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Jun 03, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
It is with absolute frustration and complete disgust that I pen this letter to the Editor to make the public aware of how corrupt and incompetent the administration of the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown are. I have a close relative who has been a resident and tax-paying homeowner in the community of Bel Air Park for more than sixty years now.
A little over a year ago, he observed a new occupant and presumably owner of a property situated at the western end of Jacaranda Avenue carrying out extensive renovations and enhancement works to the said property. In carrying out these repairs, my relative noticed that the new owner had dismantled the fence on the northern extremity of his boundary which ran alongside a footpath, drain and city reserve and reconstructed it (the fence) further north taking in as part of his property the footpath, the drain and reserve that belongs to the city.
This abuse, now prevents citizens from walking through and through between Jacaranda Avenue and Lama Avenue which is what they have done in the past, it severely compromises the drainage system and emergency use of this footpath, should the need ever arise.
This barefaced takeover of the municipal reserve is just unbelievable, particularly in light of the frequent claims by the Council that it was deploying a zero tolerance policy to recalcitrant citizens who break the law, especially squatting on city reserves, compromising the drainage system, blocking passageways, compromising fire safety etc.
As it turns out their campaign against lawlessness is only against the poor and the downtrodden and not the well-heeled and deep pocketed citizens like this Bel Air Park Resident. Over the last year and a half, my relative visited City Hall numerous times and made innumerable telephone calls to officials in the Town Clerk’s Office and the City Engineer’s Department, all to no avail.
At first it was promised that this egregious situation would be addressed as it was a flagrant desecration of the city’s bylaws, a disregard for the other residents and a significant compromise to the drainage system. However as time went by it became quite pellucid that there was a reluctance by the Council to correct this obscene situation.
Indeed eventually, my relative began to be treated as a nuisance and was told that he should be quiet about the matter as there was just no way the owner is going to return the city’s property to the residents and the city since he could afford to throw his weight around, and that we just have to live with that. Reading recently of the Mayor’s concerns about the workings of the City Engineer’s Department, I would like to ask for her investigation and intervention in the matter.
Deodarie Putulal

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