Dear Editor,
We the residents of a new housing scheme at Good Hope, Phase 3, East Coast Demerara are suffering on a daily basis. We have no roads in this village, while the front of the village looks all shiny and nice to passers-by with the Kissoons’ housing scheme and good roads.
Residents living at the back in the New Scheme have no roads; we have a dam. We traverse cliffs and canyons, putting it mildly, to get to our daily jobs so we can faithfully pay our taxes every month.
Secondly, persons living in this ‘new village’ have no proper means of garbage disposal; the NDC does not come through this village – maybe the vehicle won’t be able to make it over the cliffs and canyons – to clean and pick up the garbage that is dumped indiscriminately by some persons who do not know better.
This affects us, who do know better. They would dump and burn their refuse at any hour without a care. If it’s not the members of the housing scheme, it’s the business people who use this village as a dumpsite for their unwanted material and wood shavings, which they would set alight and leave to burn all through the night and day, affecting the elderly and newborns.
Editor, my family and I have been living in this village for about a year now, and this situation is overbearing. Would the government like us, the residents of Good Hope, Phase 3, to down tools and block the only entrance to the village and protest; to burn tires in this peaceful PPP stronghold community? We are tired and frustrated about writing letters and making complaints without any satisfaction. We will continue to write and make this village a highlight until something is done.
Yours faithfully,
Naddia Bacchus
