What has become of the once pride of West Demerara – the Leonora Sports Ground – and who is responsible for its complete abandonment, asks Mabel? This is a criminal shame of neglect for a venue that once offered excellent facilities for myriad events of national importance. The existing derelict condition of this valuable real estate and invaluable venue should not be permitted to lay waste, we cannot afford it. Will the authorities please do the necessary things to restore this ground with its proper facilities? If the will is there, funding can be realised.

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Why is the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) permitted to show such callous disregard for members of the public who are subjected to the terror of both sunshine and rainfall at its Smyth and Princess Streets location?

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And why is the Traffic Chief so equally callous about permitting parking on both East and West of Smyth Street? Is he so blind not to see the congestion that occurs on a daily basis?

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Do we have the competent personnel to spend the 46 billion dollars earmarked for capital development in the national budget in keeping with the efficiency that is expected in overseeing the relevant projects concerned with the projected development?

Spending over $100M per month, calls for maximum prudence in ensuring that we get full value for such expenditure.

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Quite timely was the President’s recent dressing-down of the several incompetent contractors that have done work for the government.

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Why are the authorities permitting the producers of rough boards to continue fleeing the entire population by deliberately shortchanging on the measurement of supplying inadequate board measure (bm) which is calculated on the basis of 144 cubic inches, that is 12 x 12 x 1? The public pays for the board measurement, but in fact receives significantly less than the specific 144 cubic feet as what is supplied is not of one-inch thickness.