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The resources allocated to this frivolous project should be redirected to significant endeavours
DEAR EDITOR,
Flags are a symbol of importance; they represent a form of identification.
The APNU+FC regime upon taking up the mantle of leadership in Guyana announced the need for regional flags. The idea of regional flags was packaged and sold as a representation of independence.
Editor, I believe the Golden Arrowhead serves that very purpose. In addition, this move was soundly rejected by residents and several of the regional officials who also are against the renaming of the regions.
In spite of this, on Tuesday 15th of January, the DPI posted an article, which stated that the Government is moving forward with proposed regional flags and the renaming of the regions.
This Government has had three and a half years to implement such a trivial project. That it finds the need to focus, at this time, on matters which will have no significant impact on the well-being of a population which has to grapple daily with medication shortages, run-down public infrastructure, higher cost of living and the other effects of the current economic downturn, is testimony to its misplaced priorities.
The resources allocated towards this frivolous project can be redirected towards job creation, enhanced public security, better roads, improved potable water supply, efficient garbage collection etc.
On the Ministry of Communities website is a pdf document with ten well-designed flags carrying descriptions and an explanation of the region. When was the graphic team procured? How was this done? Is this another situation like the seven regional newsletters; where a graphic artist is paid an astronomical amount monthly for those newsletters?
Readers may recall that this government fell on 21st December 2018 and rather than using the time remaining to further milk the treasury, the Government should try to bring relief to the long suffering citizenry. For starters, the roads in Albouystown were destroyed during a pipe-laying exercise by the GWI, it has remained in a poor state for almost two years now.
Yours truly,
Jason Abdulla
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