Dear Editor,
My study window looks out directly onto the Railway Embankment. I can see clearly what takes place on the road in daylight. Nighttime is difficult because the street lights have not functioned for two consecutive months. I have written about these erratic lights several times before.
Last Saturday at around 23.00 hours, while on the computer, I heard the loud sound of a screeching car. I looked out and saw five horses running wild on the road, a feature I have seen countless times on the Railway Embankment. The vehicle had come to a halt. About two hours later, my daughter ran upstairs to inform her parents there was an accident. We know now it was a car that hit one of those rampaging horses and one person is dead and another critical.
On Monday morning around 7am, I saw those very horses on the Railway Embankment again. Those animals that just twenty-four hours earlier caused the death of a citizen were on full display again. I went immediately to the computer and typed this letter.
Those horses have been running wild on the Railway Embankment for years. Several accidents have occurred because of them. Surely, someone owns those animals. Surely, it is time to prosecute the owner and impound the horses. I know it is hard to ask the new government to do so much in just the five weeks it has been in office, but these horses if not stopped are going to kill more people.
Finally, one of the most ill-informed things the past government has done is to use low watt bulbs on public streets. This ignorance is almost morbid. You put lights on a street so users can see what is in front of them in the night. The bulbs that the previous Ministry of Works used were for decorative purposes not for street lighting. You can hardly see what is on the road with these bulbs.
What a contrast we now have on the Railway Embankment. Go on the road that leads to the new Giftland Office Mall. The bulbs are almost a hundred times brighter than the ones that are on the main road, that is, the Railway Embankment. How ironic it is that foolish politicians who did these harsh things to the Guyanese people now sit in the opposition lecturing the nation on what is right from wrong, as if they know the distinction or have ever known it.
Yours faithfully,
Frederick Kissoon
