Dear Editor,
In reference to your editorial of Stabroek Business of Friday, July 11, captioned ‘A capital in chaos,’ I should point out that if one has an eye for beauty he/she will appreciate beautiful things. In Georgetown (British Guiana) wedged between Cornwall Street and the road where the buses park in the vicinity of the fire station, there used to be a pretty little triangular park with a metal fence neatly, trimmed grass and a bust of Russell on a marble pedestal.
Soon after independence that pretty little park was destroyed to make way for something completely opposite – a place where alcohol is sold and people urinate and defecate. I remember one elderly employee of Bookers Stores told his children “Guiana done.”
Well the destruction of that said park was the beginning of what Georgetown, the one time garden city of the English-speaking Caribbean has become – a garbage city.
Of course central government changed in 1992, but the administration of Georgetown has remained in the same hands it has been in since independence.
Yours faithfully,
WP George
