THE SCALE AND WEIGHT

Jan 19, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – Bolsanaro is coming to Guyana. Our [elected] President, through his respective ministries is having executed certain clean up and spruce up campaigns.
But our President is attacking the problem from the symptoms and not the causes.
He is digging a hole to fill another too. The clean-up campaign while it is admirable is futile since the citizens have cultivated the nasty culture of dumping their unwanted everywhere, except where it is supposed to go.
I notice workers white-washing –with a grey slop – tree trunks and bridge rails around Brickdam and South Road [to name a few]. Editor, there is a cost to this. So when the agency expend that cost the scale [cash in hand] goes down on one side and the debt goes up [on the other side]. That is once. The folly is, dear Editor, that white-washing is a very temporary ‘fix’; a plaster to a sore, literally. When the rains come, once or twice, all that will go along with it. Thus comes the second round of expenditure to spruce up again, should another President be invited. So the scale goes further down on one side and higher up on the other.
How long are our managers going to squander our wealth and our children’s and grandchildren’s inheritance in this callous and scandalous fashion?
It is evident that these managers do not practice scientific management or accounting. It is evident there is no Planning; whether short-term or long term for these types of activities that begin as small expenditure but balloon into billions over a course of time.
We need to let the President know that this kind of management is unacceptable. Georgetown as the Capital City deserves better attention and treatment. Not this ‘stop gap’ action. But a ‘deep-treatment’ that would be long lasting and with periodic maintenance.

Kimanzi Mulekezi

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