Dear Editor,
This is my third letter re the dangerous hole in McDougall Street, Kitty, and I am sure by now that you are fed up with me. However, I am imploring you to bear with me as once more I try desperately to highlight this problem which is worse than ever.
My first letter, which you forwarded to Mr Royston King of the M&CC, was met with a false promise that works were to begin on January 3, 2011. Some sand was deposited nearby, obviously by the M&CC, and nothing was done afterwards. As such, with constant vehicular traffic traversing that road, it continues to deteriorate daily.
This afternoon on my way home, I was not surprised but rather furious, to find that a big part of the road had corroded and in order to pass there, I had to drive over a part of the hole. I had great difficulty in manoeuvering my car over that ‘death hole,’ but because I had to get home I had no choice. I was risking damage to my car, firstly to my axle and possible punctures to my tyres among other 
things; and secondly, serious injury to myself and child if my vehicle had stuck. Now I have the added expense of taking a taxi to go to work as I cannot drive over that piece of road. As was previously mentioned, that is the entrance and exit to Owen Street, so I do not have an alternative route. This situation is totally unacceptable. It did not happen yesterday; a few 
months have now gone by and the residents have constantly been informing the relevant authorities. We were totally ignored by those responsible, who sit in their offices without doing what they are being paid to do.
Like every other resident of Guyana, we also pay our taxes and we expect to be treated decently. The Mayor & City Council does not weed our parapets; we the residents take that financial 
responsibility upon ourselves, so the least they can do is to ensure that our roads are passable. A primary school is not too far away and the children have to pass that ‘death hole’ to and from school. Whose responsibility would it be if one of them fell in there and was seriously injured? Whose responsibility would it be if a vehicle drives into that hole, especially at night when that area is in total darkness? Are we going to wait for this to happen and then start shifting the blame?
I am calling on the Mayor, Mr Hamilton Green, to personally look into this matter. It has reached a point whereby I am forced to call on the highest position of that office to take some action. I have attached herewith some photographs of the hole in its current state and its previous state in order to show the rapid corrosion.
Editor, I take this opportunity to thank you for the use of your medium of publicity and sincerely hope action would be taken.
Yours faithfully,
Jennie Charran
Editor’s note
We will again send a copy of this letter to Mr Royston King, PRO of the Mayor and City Council for any comment he might wish to make.
