Dear Editor,
As someone who remembers not that very long ago, when Georgetown was celebrated as the ‘Garden City’ and the envy of the Caribbean, when the city’s drains and alleys were routinely cleaned, with the Guyana Fire Service being co-opted by the City Council to regularly power wash the pavements and flush the wide canals, when the roads, streets and avenues were well maintained, the streets and pavements particularly in the commercial areas were kept free of itinerant and stationary vendors allowing persons to walk the streets freely without being harassed, when the parapets were well manicured and the trees along the streets were pruned and trimmed, flowering and providing shade, when the Le Repentir Cemetery was like a huge park with palms and other trees lining the roadways and beautiful flowers on the parapets, when the various municipal markets were kept clean and safe from petty thieves, and when it was a pleasure to shop in them, I sit and shake my head and wonder how we got into this absolutely disgusting, chaotic and abominable state.
Dear Editor,
Reportedly the Clerk of the National Assembly, on the advice of the Speaker, has written the Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs for his office’s legal counsel on the no-confidence motions brought against the Leader of the Opposition and two government ministers.
Dear Editor,
President, Dr. Irfaan Ali, the Government of Guyana and the Minister of Public Works must be praised for the road projects that they are undertaking.
Dear Editor,
I was extremely appalled to see the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown inviting bids recently for the leasing of the City Constabulary Training Complex on Water Street.
Dear Editor,
The shenanigans at GECOM continues. Now the meeting to determine the fate of employees involved in attempted electoral manipulation could not commence as their employment contracts were not available to the Commission.
Dear Editor,
It must be the joke of the century for the installed Minister of Education to be advocating a $19,000 (under US $100) payout for every child in public schools, since this programme is ill conceived and will not improve the lives of the children, parents or teachers or increase their access to education.
Dear Editor,
The paintings that were sent to the Netherlands for the “Benedicto IV: Mighty Echo of the Amazon Rainforest – Revelations of the Guianas” exhibition last October have arrived back home.
Dear Editor,
There are too many Public Relations people around in different guises in the state sector; this extends to government propaganda channels in private/social media sectors, too.
Dear Editor,
One wonders how many players in the construct of Local Government and Regional Development would have heard of the existence of an Urban Development Programme instituted some 18 years ago in 2003.
Dear Editor,
I would like to express my considerable disappointment having observed the very basic and stopgap repairs that are currently being carried out to the almost 90-year-old Municipal Abattoir building located on Water Street which was damaged by a falling crane a year and a half ago.