The only lamp on the Embankment not fixed is outside my home

Dec 18, 2019 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

If tonight you see the street lamp directly outside my home on the Railway Embankment with its beams on, then the government of Guyana is a dishonest, twisted, perverted regime. It means after the publicity, they fixed it.
I wrote three recent columns (there are many more in the recent past) denouncing the absence of streetlights on the Railway Embankment from Sheriff Street to Ogle.
Please see the following columns of mine – Sunday, November 17, 2019, “The US Ambassador sees this tragedy each night; Thursday, November 28, 2019, “Minibuses, their passengers, streetlights and the European man;” and Wednesday, December 4, 2019, “Use this criterion to judge the PPP, PNC and AFC.”
In the November 19 edition of Kaieteur News, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure replied to my commentary, which it dubbed “gross exaggerations”. Well for either election reasons or shame, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure decided to fix the dead lamps on the Railway Embankment.
The people I saw installing new street bulbs were from that Ministry because the vehicle had that Ministry’s logo. It was not GPL.
I looked through my window and said to myself, “Well Patterson is finally getting commonsense.” I muttered the word commonsense because it is stupid not to have the traffic signals and streetlights in disuse on two of the major highways where 99.99 percent of visitors to Guyana will pass through.
That night something wasn’t right. Early in the day, I saw the men putting the new lamp on the post next to mine, which is outside the Caricom Secretariat Annex. I made a terrible mistake. I should have continued to monitor them.
That night I looked through my window and saw the lamps east and west of my home all lit up. But the post right outside my home didn’t have a working bulb. I went upstairs and looked straight down the Railway Embankment east and west – it was all lit up.
I decided to investigate for myself. All the posts which line the northern side (the lampposts are built on the northern side of the highway) of the Railway Embankment from Sheriff Street to Industry had working lights except the bulb directly outside my home.
I drove slowly from Sheriff Street to Industry and all the bulbs were working. I did not go beyond Industry but I saw streetlights way beyond Industry, somewhere in the vicinity of Ogle.
I went home and called the publisher of Kaieteur News, Mr. Glenn Lall for him to see what was going on. He said he was in a high-level meeting with lawyers. The next morning, I alerted him to the situation and he agreed to investigate. I told Mr. Lall he has to see it for himself to believe it.
You have to see it for yourself to believe –from Sheriff Street to Industry all the lights are working except the post directly outside my home. How do you account for that? Could that be a mistake? Was it an error?
Let’s do logical deduction. I condemned the government for not having working lamps in the area. The relevant Ministry came and rectified the problem but only the bulb on the post outside my home is not working.
Your mind will probably go back to the PPP government. Remember they were cleaning the trench on the Railway Embankment starting from east and going west. They dredged the last piece outsides my neighbour’s home and mine was left unfinished.
Now that could not be a mistake since Mr. Chin’s house was the last one so they had to leave his unfinished since they had to pass me to get to him.
Please see the coverage of this sick act by the PPP government in the editions of Kaieteur News from November 10 to November 13, 2010.
The trench incident and streetlight story are just a long continuation of the tragic politics of this land where Guyana has been reduced to ashes by politicians whose narrow-mindedness has no parallel elsewhere in the world in the 21st century.
The trench cleaning mischief is simple to understand. No worker would have taken it upon him/herself to say, “Don’t clean the part where Freddie Kissoon lives.”
It had to be a senior government minister either president or minister to issue that edict.
It is the same with the streetlight depravity. There is no way I believe those technicians would have willfully bypassed my home. I say with vehement inflexibility; the order came from very high up.
It is time Guyanese vote out the PPP, PNC and AFC and look for decent, new blood.

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