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Disaster Averted! We need to give God thanks!
DEAR EDITOR,
I write to ask you to please publish this letter, as we ALL need to raise our voices in praise to God for His great mercy that Victorians experienced two days ago and to let the disaster that could have resulted be impressed on our consciousness.
Last Tuesday, April 17, 2018, the village of Victoria on the East Coast of Demerara, dodged a bullet, as God mercifully saved us from our collective ignorance and neglect from our administrators, and an incident that had the potential to be a catastrophe of enormous proportions went off seemingly without terrible consequences.
The “Four Corner” in Victoria is situated on a blind turn in the Public road. It also has a Guyoil gas station there and is the favourite place for many #44 minibuses to make u-turns in contravention of every traffic regulation. Added to this silly behaviour, it is the main point of congregation for all the village taxis, again in blatant defiance of every traffic regulation. Coupled with these users, it is the popular liming spot for many in the village.
Over the past ten or more years, this potential disaster posed by this corner has been brought to the attention of the commanders of “C” division of the Guyana Police Force, without making any meaningful impact in their operational policy.
An organization in the village has even suggested to the NDC, the RDC and the national government, the construction of a Tarmac which could be used as a parking lot, so as to remove the taxis from the corner and a changing of the traffic pattern so as to stop traffic entering a public road at a blind corner. All have been ignored or, at least to date, have borne no fruit.
On Tuesday a large truck laden with many tens of tons of rice, narrowly missed killing many persons in the village and destroying the Guyoil station and creating an inferno which would have had the potential of wiping out a substantial portion of the village. All of this has not somehow registered on the consciousness of many of us in this village as we have gone back to “business as usual”.
I appeal to you Editor, please use your good instrument to make our plight and predicament known, so that just maybe, someone in authority is listening, and some reaction to this incident would occur to the benefit of this community.
In the meantime, I hope the driver of that truck is given an award for his skillful driving. In my view he avoided, with God’s help, a potential disaster which could have been catastrophic to us all in this village.
Sincerely,
Desmond Saul
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