Dear Editor,

The residents of Block 8, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara have for years been begging for a reasonable supply of potable water and good streets. A few months ago we sent a petition to the President and immediately after we received electricity but there was no improvement to the streets and water supply.

My uncle, with whom I reside, has been living here for seven years and to date the streets are still sand and slush. The craters are so deep that a child can drown. Schemes like Onion Field at LBI and the Guysuco scheme aback of Industry, developed recently have all weather roads. Imagine the Ministry of Housing paving the streets for the Guysuco scheme but its own scheme has been left to rot. Guysuco workers paid $60,000 for their lots, we paid $500,000 and $700,000 for our lots.

The Mon Repos well is in Block 8 but we receive little or no water while other schemes, getting water from the same well, get water at their upper flats for over 8 hours per day while we get water every other day for three hours per day and it hardly reaches 2 feet high.

The issues were highlighted many times before but there has been no response from the Ministry of Housing and Water and Guyana Water Inc.

Yours faithfully,

L. Rampersaud