Leaning electric post causes fear at Rahaman’s Park

Residents of Rahaman’s Park in the Greater Georgetown/East Bank Demerara area, having grown wary of a leaning electric post, are contending that the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is ignoring their complaints.
When Guyana Times visited the area on Saturday, residents decried the sloth of the GPL in treating with their complaints, and highlighted that the leaning electric post carries high-voltage power lines.
Pansy Ramsarran, a mother of four and grandmother of three, contended that she has been making repeated complaints to GPL about the ongoing situation. She said that when she calls, GPL personnel would on numerous occasions refer her to different departments.
Declaring that she has been living in the area for some 35 years, Ramsarran explained that, sometime ago, GPL operatives had strapped the post onto another piece of wood, and then to a new post. They have since made no effort to replace this post, which is being destroyed by termites.
“I complain every day, but they putting me from one department to the next,” Ramsarran explained.
Other residents declared themselves particularly concerned over the safety of young children who play in, and traverse, the area to and from school. Adrian Allicock, resident in the community for all of his 47 years, said his Lot 23 Rahaman’s Park home is continually deteriorating from leaning electric lines pulling the boards from the wooden section.
He pointed out that he, too, has made several complaints to, but has received no positive response from, the power company.
“I would not like it to fall and injure anybody; I prefer if they come and do it immediately. All (GPL) saying is that they [will] come and send supervisor, and nobody (has) come as yet. It might lean and lean more, and the next thing you know, it (causing) chaos in the area,” Allicock said.
Guyana Times was told that the post has been leaning for the past 8 months; and with the passage of time, has been gradually deteriorating.