Dear Editor,
PERSONS traversing the Stabroek Market square are met each night with the entire structure ablaze with hundreds if not thousands of decorative light bulbs that adorn the building, which apparently were placed there as part of the Jubilee celebrations last year May.

But with the Jubilee and Christmas long over, one is left to wonder what purpose is being served by such irresponsible behaviour on the part of the Council? How could the city afford such wastage of electricity when they always claim to be broke? But worse, they already owe the Guyana Power & Light hundreds of millions of dollars that they have shown no intention of paying and now they are adding this to the bill. How ridiculous? These are not LED or energy- saving bulbs, but rather energy-wasting, incandescent bulbs.

The citizens and visitors to Georgetown do not need the Stabroek Market to be illuminated at nights, but would prefer to have the insides of the various markets better lit during the day, whilst they are shopping to improve security conditions; they need better lighting on the streets, many of which are dark and unsafe at night.

In fact, the money spent placing all of those lights on the front of the Stabroek Market, and lighting them up each night would have been better spent repairing the badly dilapidated roof over the Stabroek Market wharf which had collapsed since 2014, and which was left just like that by the Council, and for repairing the non-functional clock which was supposed to start ticking again in time to ring in our New Year 2017 as its rehabilitation was expected to be finished by December 31 last year, but never did. The City Council just seems to have its priorities mixed up.

Regards,
Shanta Singh