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‘Rescue Georgetown’ initiative must be applauded
Dear Editor,
I have been reading with great interest about the President’s “Rescue Georgetown” initiative. It would be an understatement to say that it is timely and long overdue.
In this 21st century, the state of Guyana’s capital city is without doubt, an eyesore. From Sheriff Street to the Demerara River and from the sea wall to Independence Boulevard, the city’s gutters and canals, with the exception of the canals outside the GDF compound and the President’s Office, have become garbage dumps. Even the newly refurbished sea wall and beachfront are being slowly infected by this made germ.
Therefore, I submit that in addition to improving waste management, rehabilitation of canals and drainage systems, the programme also has to address behaviour change on the part of citizens. The clogged gutters and canals are a result of citizen behaviour – that of pitching. Whatever is not needed is, and more often by pedestrians and drivers, pitched into the nearest “receptacle”, i.e. roadside gutter, canal or the street. Therefore, to aid this necessary behaviour change, it may be necessary to have large garbage bins at almost every street corner and maybe chained down to prevent them from being stolen! There may even be a need for “sanitation scouts” to gently and courteously remind citizens using the streets, to use these bins and so, slowly break the habit of pitching. I commend the President’s initiative and sincerely hope that, over time, with the cooperation of citizens, central government and City Council, Georgetown will revert to its state as a “garden city”.
Yours sincerely,
Sylvia Barrow
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I had hope Georgetown would be re-imagined as it was back in the old days.
For anyone who has not seen Georgetown in the OLD DAYS, Penn University
has some series of videos, likewise, British Pate on British Guiana.
No one was speeding, no crowded streets, roads, rivers. Dankey carts
galore everywhere like bicycles, hats and umbrellas. Motor cars came when
the British took control. BG Fire Service ?, Yes. Police too.