AT the GuyExpo opening, the President vowed to make Guyana even more investor-friendly and the hub of the Caribbean and South America.

President Ramotar said that, currently, there are projects that are ongoing, amounting to some US$2.5B, and spread over different sectors of our economy. He also reiterated his call for the Amaila Falls project, noting that cheap electricity would assist persons in saving almost 40% on their current electricity bills. He raised the point of transportation and the country’s need for improvement in this regard, noting, however, that new roads are needed to make certain areas accessible.
The President is calling for all the right things, but stopped short of calling on the free-loaders at Linden to pay their fair share for electricity while the hydro project gets back on board. Why should all other Guyanese pay for those in Linden?
Visitors should go up to Linden to see how they live in total comfort, then fly over Linden at nights and see how it is lit up like you are flying over a mini New York, or a mini Toronto.
It is a sin for those shameless Lindeners to cry depression while they have others paying for them.
The President touched on new roads, which is all good and well, but the President’s people that are hired to overlook some constructions are falling asleep, or are unable to ask questions, or are downright dumb not to know when wool is pulled over their eyes.
Let me give one example.
For the past two years, I think it is Courtney Benn Construction that was hired and paid to take a trench and make it into a concrete gutter between Middleton Street in Campbellville and McDougal Avenue in Kitty.
In the process of doing so the construction company broke up McDougal Avenue big time.
It got so bad that only a few weeks ago residents took it upon themselves to fill that massive hole in the road with some excess bricks and rocks that the construction company left there.
Up to this day none of the residents in the Kitty area know what this construction company was trying to accomplish, but they did damage a newly-built road and went their way, leaving residents to take care of things so their vehicles can access McDougal Avenue.
How a company can be paid to do one thing while damaging another thing makes no sense whatsoever.
If anyone thinks this is a lie then just go ask residents in Owen St Kitty, McDougal Avenue and Station Street in Kitty of what took place there about two years ago.
The proof of the damaged road is still there for all to see, and the trench they took and made into a concrete gutter is blocked big time.
This is why the water in the alleyway between Station Street and Owen Street in Kitty is always there; and it stinks and is filthy – made for mosquitoes’ breeding ground.

T. KING