Should we not just tear down the old City Hall building and build a new one

Jan 29, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – Over the years, there have been continuous efforts to restore City Hall building to its original state. Whilst there are a lot of reasons for doing so to an historical building, I’ve come to the assumption that the building is being considered a breadbasket to fuel friends and cronies under the guise of restoring the building.

As long as I could recall, extraordinary money is required to do repairs and when finished, the building is still unsafe. I must say I’m quite surprised to see it will cost sixty million dollars to conduct a feasibility study to decide if the building should be repaired.. Lack of proper maintenance caused that historical building to deteriorate to the state it is in presently all because we don’t know the importance of preserving a historical building. Looking at the condition of the building it would be safer and cheaper to tear down the building and build a new one.

Editor, on Wednesday I had cause to enter City Hall compound and I looked at the building and wondered what sort of people would allow a historical building like that to reach such a condition, but looking around the compound, I didn’t have to guess. Approximately two weeks ago, people going to pay their Rates and Taxes got directed to another building in the compound because restoration work commenced on City Hall. People are directed to sit on chairs that are under the shed and some in the sun. Two booths are in operation and after four-five customers, the cashier would block her windows for 10-15 minutes.

There’s staff there to monitor the line system, but conveniently they would disappear and someone who is not in the line would walk to the booth and push their paper in and gets look after. After some two hours, the people got agitated and voicing their concern, which caused the monitors to go and bring the City Police with the idea of intimidation with threats of locking up. When the people complained about the slothfulness the cashiers threaten to close their booths and see what they can do.
Finally Editor, the Mayor passed the crowd and just glanced at them, waved his hand and walked away. One lady called out saying that everyone has to join one line and there’s no provision for elderly or pregnant people. Surprisingly, the mayor didn’t hear or choose to ignore and continue along his way. What is sickening is directly behind the chairs, there’s a sewerage tank overflowing and from the condition of it, it must have been in this state for a very long time.

Regards
Sahadeo Bates

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