Lorries blocking mandir’s entrance

WE the members of the Cotton Field, Essequibo Coast Vedic Mandir are calling on the relevant authorities to remove two lorries which are blocking the entrance to our mandir during prayers time. We have made several reports to the IMC at Anna Regina and the Commander of ‘G’ Division without any help and our members are very disturbed at the attitude displayed by both of these entities.
The Commander told us that is not the police’s job to remove lorries which are encumbering the roadway and entrance of people’s property, but rather the IMC which is mandated to remove obstructions.
Editor, these two lorries are parking side by side during the day and night in front of our mandir, taking over half of the roadway which has become a traffic hazard to lives and limbs and most of all it is an obstruction to our church. We know that previous Commanders who were stationed here removed parking vehicles from the roadway which were blocking people’s entrance.
We have lately built a concrete culvert which has cost the mandir $2M and the owner will park his lorries on our newly constructed culvert causing damages to it. We appealed to him many times not to park his lorries and blocking our entrance, but he still continues.
On many occasions our church members turned up for services and had to turn back because they cannot enter the mandir. The owner of these lorries lives opposite our mandir, but instead of parking his vehicles on his side, he chooses to block the entrance of the mandir.
We had planned also to construct the eastern side of the street running to the Caricom Rice Mills which will beautify the township and save the IMC millions of dollars from cleaning the drains. This project will cost the mandir an additional $2M but we will only do it if we get the cooperation from the police and IMC to prevent vehicles from damaging the culvert.
The owner of these vehicles has several businesses in his yard but do not park his lorries to disturb his business.
School children and members of the public have to navigate between them during busy days of the traffic. At nights it is worse because there is a junction with a sharp turn leading to the Caricom Rice Millls Ltd.
We are calling on the Commissioner of Police and the Traffic Chief to do something urgently so we can pray in peace.

MEMBERS OF COTTON FIELD VEDIC MANDIR

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