Guyanese must remember to "clean up” after themselves

Guyanese must remember to “clean up” after themselves

Apr 22, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

I am truly baffled by the condition of the main locations for flying kite, during the season of Easter.
The first thought that probably popped into your head when I wrote the above is “Wuh yuh expect? Is Guyanese.” Well dearest, I’d expect, better.
How would you like for someone to stumble into your home and turn it upside down? Leave clothes, food and other garbage on the floor?
This country is your home land. Treat it as such.
The very same way you’d hate to see garbage in your house on the floor, you should hate to see garbage in your beloved, home country.
The very same country you played cricket, football, “catcher or throw-to-throw” on its land. Enjoy its fruits and climbed its trees.
That country represents your home.
This is something we’ve been taught since small days. Clean up after yourself. I repeat. Clean up after yourselves.
The first thing in kindergarten we’ve learnt. Pack up your toys when you’re finished with it. Make sure the floor is neat and clean, in fact we even had a song to remind us, “clean up, clean up, everybody everywhere.”
While this is not the first time our land is polluted, after a holiday, or even without the cause to celebrate, I should hope you feel as I do, it should be the last.
While I cannot stop persons from carelessly tossing trash out their cars, or as they walk the streets. I urge you, to do what’s right and not what’s convenient.
There’s no excuse for the amount of garbage found at the National Park, after the 18th of April. There were bins present. I cannot speak of the seawall on that particular day, since I was not there, but for the readers who were, if you could not find somewhere to put your trash, keep it on you so to dispose it in the nearest bin later. Even if that means you would have to take it home. This is our responsibility as the people of Guyana.
Our country is only a reflection of it’s people.
So my question to you Guyana, is do we truly agree and accept the title “the city of garbage?”
Please Guyana. This is what our ancestors fought for. Independence. Independently, we can rid this bad habit of littering.

Yours sincerely,
Saaya Simran Prasad

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