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Jul 04, 2018 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
I would sincerely hope that highlighting this problem would finally prompt the authorities to rectify it before life and property are affected.
For over three years now, there are a number of lamp posts that have been a hazard to persons traversing Levi Dam Mount Sinai, North New Amsterdam, Berbice, and after many complaints to the GTT and GPL personnel – and on many occasions having seen for themselves the situation – we are told that “…a report will be taken in and another team will fix soon…”
The contractor that planted new GPL posts and ran new lines assured that at the time they would straighten the poles…but never did accomplish this task.
A nearby concrete fence will be broken should these posts fall, notwithstanding power lines will cut and may electrocute children or adults passing by. Telephone and Internet service will be disrupted.
But of course, only then will GPL and GTT see it fit to mobilise and to fix the problem at an enormous cost. And I will have to wait on a lengthy process and face the royal runaround to get my fence fixed too.
The usual procrastination with the utilities in Guyana.
Devindra Malhotra
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