Dear Editor,
I HAVE been using the East Bank Berbice public road to access my cane farm; and for about five years, I actually lived in a most beautiful house which I had built at Edinburgh as my retirement home.I regretfully had to sell it later, at great financial and emotional loss, because the dust from the road ‘bathed’ my house in the dry weather, and the sludge in the potholes, which became craters in the wet weather, virtually chased me away from my ‘dream house’.
On Thursday, 25/02/16, as I tried to access my farm, I was confronted with several machines doing ‘patchwork’ on the road, a phenomenon that has been featuring for the past several decades to ‘welcome’ new General Elections and visits by high ranking ‘officials’ and VIPs of all political stripes, including presidents of Guyana.

The residents along this road have been quietly enduring the hardships of commuting, and the health hazards from the mountainous dust storms every time a vehicle rolls by…. And no one from the government, past and present, seems to care, except when the Prime Minister, or the President, or others of such high office must travel on the said road.

What a shame! What a disgrace, especially for the ‘rulers’ in the so-called “social-minded regimes” to allow themselves to be so fooled!!

I was told that the road is being hurriedly given another of the numerous “quick-fixes”, “face-lifts”, “window-dressings” etc., because “de President is visiting” the area this week-end!!!

I could not help asking: “What’s wrong with the President seeing the road as it is normally? Why try to fool the President by presenting a quick-fix, window-dressing job that hides the reality that all of us road users and residents have been enduring for so very, very, very long?
Regards,
NOWRANG PERSAUD