Dear Editor,
I am having trouble understanding the following facts: Lethem has had little or no power for several days now due to a faulty generator plunging the community there into complete chaos. I don’t understand why there is not a standby generator or why one of the Caterpillar diesel sets which we are paying an arm and a leg for if we use them or not, could not have been taken to Lethem to help the people until their generator is fixed.
The people at Madhia and other places in the interior are complaining that the roads are in a bad way affecting them fundamentally; the farmers in Black Bush Polder are crying out that they have no water for their rice, which is dying since two of the three pumps required to serve them are down.
The city of Georgetown looks like a garbage dump and the Lindeners are crying out for help from a government which will agree to anything, with the deliberate intention of doing nothing to rectify the situation; they just agreed to the people’s demands to get them to stop protesting.
In the meantime and in the same country, the government is building a Marriott hotel which will only bring affluence to a few. They are investing in another Skeldon/Marriott disaster, a situation which is made worse by the fact that they are setting up to subcontract those aspects of the hotel which will be lucrative, ie the casino and the restaurant, to private individuals.
How much will be too much for the Guyanese people? At what point will they say enough! I am amazed at the capacity of the Guyanese people (all races) to accept pain.
Yours faithfully,
Tony Vieira
