Dear Editor,
One wonders what it will take for Guyanese to take a stand on all the things that are destroying the physical and mental well-being of us citizens. I could offer a list longer than my arm, but I won’t do that. Not today. Today I want to ask a question. When did we become so nasty, so degraded as a people that we are content to live our lives alongside the filth that is building up around the walls of our homes and places of work and recreation. There is garbage everywhere – in front of houses, on parapets, in drains, strewn across roads and pavements.
I sat in traffic this morning and watched in horror as a couple of rats devoured the contents of a plastic bag on a hill of garbage in Thomas Street, oblivious to the people passing them. I wasn’t horrified by the sight of the rats; it was the comfort with which human and rodent co-existed in this surreal image. Rodents are no longer furtive, they are our companions in the cesspools we have created.
The outraged silence is deafening.
Let progress continue.
Yours faithfully,
Nadia Sagar
