Government should fund the removal of scratches from my new car

Jan 30, 2020 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Inherent in media work, is a prodigious curiosity about people and places. The media practitioner is zealously driven to always looking intensely and to never lose focus while looking, and to look far and wide.
I travel around Georgetown most definitely more than once each day. There are things I see that no longer make me sad, because after 50 years of social activism and 31 years in both print media and television, I have become hardened to the tragedies that canopy this hapless and helpless nation.
People come up to me almost daily with complaints and my advice is the same and will always be the same – “do not let this wasteland depress you, life is to be lived, forget what you see and enjoy your life.” Honestly, I say this to those countless souls that speak to me about violations in Guyana and about the backwardness that has drowned this country.
What you are about to read you should not readily accept. See for yourself. Remember in response to one of my pieces condemning the government’s incompetence in not fixing traffic signals at nightmarish junctions, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure referred to my commentary as gross exaggeration.
If you want we can go together. Call my cell at 614-5927, and I will show you what I am about to describe. I will easily come with you, because the nightmare you will see is right across the road where I live. Here we go. I live across the road from the MovieTowne complex in which sits Massy Supermarket.
I go to Massy almost daily, because it makes one of the best cheese scones, according to my wife. A serving of 8 huge pholouries is $100. Massy also has a breakfast special each day costing an incredibly low $400. The egg-ball is one of the best I have had and it is the cheapest too, comparatively – $140 each.
I grew all my life buying and eating salara, and have never stopped, but Massy has the best. It is a huge monster for just $100. My wife says it is the best she has had.
When MovieTowne was built, a pathway that led from the Railway Embankment to the Rupert Craig Highway was made into a road by MovieTowne management. It is now a fully asphalted street. On both sides of this street, the bushes jut out onto the roadway. Your car will inevitably get badly scratched once there is traffic on both sides of the street. You cannot prevent the branches from scratching your vehicle once another vehicle is coming at you.
The eastern side of the road is the worst. Your car has to touch the branches, because the bushes are actually on the roadway. So I repeat, do not take my word for it. Call me as soon as you read this and I will show you the branches that are unavoidable.
But there is another danger using that road. Drivers in trying to avoid being scratched when they are going south, come over to your lane and squeeze you onto to the western side where the branches happily touch you. My neighbour, Khusi Narine looked at my car and said; “Where you got those scratches from?” I just smiled and didn’t answer. This is Guyana, where civilization left a long time ago.
Now here is another thing you should not readily accept from me. Go to Massy supermarket on any day and see who the shoppers are. Quite a number of customers are foreigners, including diplomats and oil and gas officials. The groceries and vegetable sections have got foreign items that you will not find in many other retail outlets in developed countries. When I see these people, I always wonder what they say about those bushes over the only road they have to travel when they leave the supermarket.
I bought my modestly priced car in October. You see the visible branch marks on both sides of the four doors. What can you do? This is Guyana and you are a fool, deceiving yourself if you think our politicians care. Those who were in before 2015 could not have been bothered to weed those bushes. Those in power now echo the same disdain for the nation they rule.
But rulers will disrespect any citizenry, any population, any nation, if they see that they are ruling over sheep. GWI painted road signs at the rush over at 9 am, bringing rush hour traffic to a nightmarish halt. No one said anything. President Granger’s entourage cordons off several blocks when he is on the road. No one says anything.

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper)

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