I just spent three weeks in Guyana and saw many sad things there for poor people.
First, my family members are taxpayers who pay taxes for garbage to be picked up.
I ended up paying $1,600.00 for private garbage pick up in three weeks. The drainage structures that are under streets for water to run off into the trenches are smashed at McDougal Ave.
Our yard floods out at the slightest rainfall where all the nasty filthy water would come into our yard and into my sick sister’s home downstairs.
Alleyways in Guyana should be a thing of the past. When alleyways were cleaned and had a parapet it attracted thieves.
Now the alleyway is blocked with thick bushes and very black muddy diseased filthy water.
Some sick Guyanese in our street uses the alleyway to dump fish guts and shrimp shells.
Check the alleyway between Station St. & Owen St. Kitty and you will get a glimpse as to what I am talking about.
The government should step in and give the extra land to both Station & Owen Sts so one fence would be there separating the two yards.
In that way there would be no alleyway for thieves to have access to your yard and the filthy sick fish and shrimp throwers can no longer dump their filth there.

GPL came and installed new meters on my family home while I was there. It’s unbelievable to see how fast this new meter recording KW/hours. My family only runs a fridge and a small freezer and with nothing else on during the day yet the meter recording is fast.
At nights a few lights and one TV are on for about two hours the most before they retire to bed.
I am willing to bet their light bill be over ten thousand dollars for the month.

I heard a lot of people talk about GWI charging persons $1000 per month whether they use water or not. They all said the electricity will go the same way for people too.
They will end up paying ten thousand dollars a month whether or not they use electricity.

I hope and wish someone at this news media would pass on this info to the relevant authority to bring attention to the plight of the suffering people in this area.

To talk about tourism without our own national carrier is a sin. On July 18, I came to Guyana on Caribbean Airline and what everyone was subjected to is inhuman.
I was made to sit in a plane for two hours in Trinidad after flying from Toronto for five hours 20 minutes.
I never had to change seats in a plane ever before in all my travels to many different countries. I was given two boarding passes at Toronto and had to changed seats while in the plane in Trinidad.
On my way back I was made to wait for four hours in Trinidad before taking off for Toronto.
They in Trinidad won’t even allow anyone to even go out for a smoke or put a little smoking area for smokers.
Why can’t the Government of Guyana get its own national carrier for its people then talk about tourists and tourism?
I, like many others vowed not to ever travel this route ever again to get to Guyana to visit loved ones.

Thank you in advance and hope this reaches those in authority to have something done especially for those we left behind and are suffering.