Who Is Responsible for Georgetown?

Oct 07, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

The first or second question one asks of a country is the name of it’s capital city, for Guyana it’s Georgetown with a population of about two hundred thousand, one also wonder how a city this small with a small population is in such a deplorable state in many areas while being the capital city of the fastest growing economy in the world, the deplorable state of the city’s roads, drainage systems, sewer systems, livable infrastructure like hospitals, markets, police and fire stations, schools along with criminals and the mentally ill prowling around, among other deplorable aspects of the city .

The pride of many great cities globally is the optimism for visitors to have a great experience while visiting the city, whether for work, tourism, business or just visiting, this starts from arriving via land, sea, or airport, travelling along bright, well maintained, smooth, and low traffic roads, and approach the city which invites visitors warmly with a beautiful skyline view. Unfortunately for people coming to Georgetown via the Cheddi Jagan Airport, they must first go through the old fashion airport hassles in this modern-day age, must use substandard facilities although billions were spent to build and upgrade the airport, then drive along a congested jungle dam to get to Georgetown, and if there is a blackout all of one’s optimism for a great city experience changes to disgust and fatigue, those coming to the city via land and sea don’t have it better either because of the deplorable state of the roads.

So, who is responsible for improving the city from its current state? Is it the Mayor and City Hall? Is it the Government? Or is the RDC Officials of Region 4? Or who is responsible for what? Or is this a case of too many officials spoil the city? And when will the citizens of Georgetown put an end to the nonsense for management that is plaguing their city? With the amount of corporate offices and foreigners in the city, the city coffers should have been overflowing with tax revenues or the corporations and foreigners in the city all have tax exempt status?

It is rumoured city employees don’t want to work because their party didn’t win the last national elections, if this is true, then what kind of nonsense is this? These employees would deliberately endanger and allow themselves and families to live in sub-standard health and living conditions just to spite the ruling government?

Also what is the current Mayor really doing? At least ex-mayor Compton Young planted flowers, a while ago when Jagdeo got called out for corruption he shouted out ‘go and audit city hall’, seems like Jagdeo know a thing or two about corruption, it is time we hear from someone in authority on plans to improve the city, be it the Mayor, Region 4 RDC Officials, the Government or whoever has an interest, since the fastest growing country in the world deserve a much better capital city than this current one.

David

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