Dear Editor,
THE insensitivity and crudity of the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown become evident the moment one enters our capital city.
A major private sector entity and beverage giant was kind enough to have constructed, imported and installed, a beautiful arch at the entrance of our city in Agricola to welcome visitors entering our city on the East Bank of Demerara, which would have cost them a significant amount of money. This arch which is just over a year-old was launched with much pomp and fanfare which was attended by many persons including personnel from the Georgetown Municipality.
Regrettably, however, since the installation of this arch on the occasion of Guyana’s Golden Jubilee., the municipality has done nothing to maintain the surrounding area. What a shame!
How could a municipality after receiving such a wonderful gift at no cost and with no strings attached, have not the decency to send a brush cutter operator, nor their favourite contractor to just manicure the area at the two bases of the arch on a fortnightly basis?.
Instead, it is perennially overgrown with thick bushes, tall wild grass and littered with debris. Surely, the members of the Fantastic Four on their frequent trips to and from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport as they go on their recurrent junkets overseas, must notice this neglect, or is it that they don’t care? Have they not observed the scrupulous maintenance that is undertaken to arches and monuments overseas as they jaunt around the world aimlessly?
It would seem as though they are awaiting the beverage company that installed the arch to also weed the grass and clear the bushes as well. Why do we have a municipality with nearly a thousand workers and one that spends hundreds of millions of dollars each month on salaries, contractors, overseas trips and on fuel etc, is anyone’s guess when they simply cannot even maintain a gift to the city.
Regards
Sean Levius