Dear Editor,
Although I first read it in the online Demerara Waves, it was surely headline news in all the newspapers at home. I refer to March 14, 2013 when the National Assembly accepted MP Ms Volda Lawrence’s motion, with amendments, and gave the country an all-party resolution and the hope that Georgetown would be cleaned up. I got the impression that the government side had put its ideas into the motion by successfully amending it.
Simple readers like me saw the motion as a consensus motion, and also as a response to the protests that had been mounted by a non-party citizens’ group, as recognition of years of public disgust and as an awakening to a public health duty. The protest had resulted in the arrest of two popular figures, Benschop and Kissoon.
The motion also required reports from time to time by those executing the will of the National Assembly, the people’s representatives.
Yet, between March 14, 2013 and last Sunday, November 10, comments on the insanitary state of the city have been appearing and still I see no reference to the motion of March 14, 2013 with no progress report on the execution of the will the National Assembly. What happened?
Since March 2013, we have had in the city many public celebrations like the Independence anniversary, August 1 and Diwali. I am tempted to make comments, but will await an explanation from any competent source rather than rush to conclusions.
Yours faithfully,
Eusi Kwayana
