Who’s fixing the potholes at Vlissengen Road & Carifesta junction?

Dear Editor,

For about four months now, while commuting to Georgetown daily from the East Coast, I have noted with interest the presence of two holes on the road – by the junction of Vlissengen Road and Carifesta Avenue. As the months went by, these two holes became bigger and wider, and they are now blocked off by a barricade set up by the Guyana Police Force.

What bothers me is that most of our ministers of Government pass there daily — the President and Prime Minister too — and the police have blocked off this piece of road, thereby slowing down traffic; yet, no one in authority thinks of fixing this road, thus it is getting worst daily.

I guess that City Mayor Chase Green and Town Clerk Royston King pass that junction constantly too, but they just turn a blind eye to it. But they were very efficient in implementing the parking meters around the city, and they will still implement those meters sooner or later.

If they cannot fix basic road problems, then it’s not possible for this current administration to fix this country’s economic problems. These potholes are all over the place. I noticed another big one opposite Guyana Stores and by the Muneshwer’s junction. That one has some sand in it and a few sticks around it, and that can even cause a vehicle to divert and run into Guyana Stores Supermarket. Where I live in Agriculture Road, Triumph, ECD, we have two miles of growing potholes in the road. I wrote several times about those, yet no one has come to fix this road. The NAREI big wigs, the NDC chairman and even the police drive here daily, yet they turn a blind eye to the situation.

I am calling on our erudite Minister of Public Infrastructure, the Honourable David Patterson, to get fixed immediately the potholes at Vlissengen and Carifesta junction before a serious accident occurs. I want to suggest to the Mayor and City Council to immediately set up a Road Builders Committee that would travel the entire city to fix deplorable roads.

Our basic problem in this country is incompetence and negligence. We wait until something is completely destroyed before we do something, when all along we could have rescued it long before it got destroyed.

Yours truly,

Rev Gideon Cecil