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Floods pose a serious threat to the future of Linden

Aug 11, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
Permit me space in your column to share my view on the topic “The flood of 2017-08-04 in the town of Linden”. The name Linden is synonymous with the late President Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, but, I have chosen to call it Lindentown as one word. The capital of Guyana is Georgetown. George, the name of an English King who never visited our country, but our capital is called Georgetown.
The topic of my writing indicates there was a flood in Lindentown. As a child, my friends and I walked and played in drains which were concrete and free from grass, with wild eddoes, mud and garbage. In those days, when it rained, water moved quickly and freely through our drains without over flowing onto road-ways. We even removed pages/leaves from our exercise books, shaped them into ships and had fun competing with each other in the fast moving water. When there was no rain the drains were dry.
Today, our drains are all filled with grass, wild eddo, mud and other things. When or if those obstacles are removed they are placed close by the edges and they return because they are not removed on time. We continue to see the reoccurrence of work in short periods and people in authority seem not to care anymore. Taxpayers must be the recipients of good work and not abuse. We could reflect on the past but cannot relive it but the present and future is before us.
While we may or may not see the future, there is nothing wrong preparing for it, it will come to some of us. The sun and the rain will come, but, if it rains for a long or short period the streets of Lindentown must not be flooded due to clogged drains. I have seen six or more inches of water on Republic Avenue, Greenheart Street, Mora Street, Pine Street is a regular feature. Water entered businesses and threatened the Republic Bank. While we continue to reconstruct wider and deeper drains which I consider as bad engineering practice our town continues to be flooded even though it is close to the river, because there are small or blocked exits.
The time has come and gone; our leaders, councilors, business people and citizens need to come out of their hidings and shout out against bad constructions in our town, because, if we don’t, we will continue to see broken roads, drains all blocked up and our leaders remain dumb on important issues. Forward ever backward never.
B. Winslow Parris

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