Dear Editor,
Parika Stelling is very congested. There is a big, wide, rotten hole on the wharf 40×40, with lots of old wood around the place where vehicles park. Persons also dump garbage around the stelling for the tides to take it away. If you are going to catch a ferry with your vehicle, there is nightmare congestion all around. In addition, the problem is that there are too many vendors at the side of the road, and the placement of their stalls has made the roadway too narrow.
Parika needs a television station. The people of Leguan, Wakenaam and other small islands, as well as the Essequibo coast up to Makouria at Parika only have to use rabbit ears, not antennas. Parika backdam to Hubu also receives good signals.
Parika also needs a hospital; it does not have to be too big, but could keep patients until they are transferred to the West Demerara or Georgetown hospitals. The patients usually come from interior locations.
In addition Parika is in need of a 4×4 all-weather hearse and an ambulance to make quick trips to Georgetown. Garbage collection in certain areas of Parika is neglected. The road from Parika Junction to Hubu is narrow, and flatbeds usually use this road to transport heavy duty machinery for interior locations. Heavy duty trucks also use the road to transport lumber, timber, etc; these are daily routine operations.
Finally, the Essequibo region needs higher flagpoles with big Guyana flags flying on them, so that the Venezuelans could see Guyana belongs to Guyanese and Essequibo is part of Guyana.
Yours faithfully,
Winston Miller Sr
