Unnecessary inconvenience at the Parika Ferry Stelling

Mar 26, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

On Saturday 23rd March, 2019, about 06:60 hours I was at the Parika Ferry Stelling as a passenger that travelled early that morning. The tide was unusually high, but to a level we had seen before, and I guess it was somewhere near that level on Thursday and Friday before that Saturday morning.
I can remember that the Maritime officials long before that period had issued an advisory, particularly to all the Captains, farmers, fishermen and people that live in the low-lying areas, among other persons, to be on high alert. But it appears that the Management of Transport and Harbours Department did not read that advisory or probably didn’t care about the people travelling during that period of time.
The water was more than six inches in height at the area nearest to the main gate – that is where the office is located, and everyone that I spoke to, I was certain is employed by the department, apart from a couple who seemed unconcerned about the situation. That was very confusing and much to the inconvenience of the travelling public, the senior citizens, the pregnant mothers, the mothers with babies, the little children, including motorists.
The touts with the hand carts were fetching people in the carts for $100 per head across that area that was no longer than three rods long for a period of about one and half hour until the tide receded.
It is beyond the comprehension of any right thinking person that with all the warning, the expectations, the benefits of hindsight, and based on those factors, management could have easily provided a temporary or makeshift walk way that would have negated the grave inconvenience caused during that period and time of the day.
Managers in the Public Sector must do introspection. I am sure that in the private sector the situation would have been different.

Archie W. Cordis

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