Dear Editor,
Is anyone at City Hall in Georgetown aware how difficult they make the jobs of those employed at the Ministry of Tourism, the Guyana Tourism Authority, and the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana?
Day and night, all over Georgetown, there is crime; but the City Constabulary turns a Nelson’s eye to it. Using public transportation is a harrowing experience, with touts pulling you from left to right and buses driving with little regard for law and order whilst on the ‘hot plate’; and Council’s response is to move them further away whenever there is a national event, like Independence celebrations.
Mosquitoes are everywhere, but rather than constantly fogging the city, they prefer to have hat shows and health fairs. There is stinking water from the clogged drains, and garbage is strewn everywhere, and the Council’s reaction is to raise garbage collection fees paid by business owners. Beggars and street urchins are at every corner, but senior city officials just ride around in their fancy SUVs, paid for by the citizens, with their noses in the air.
And then they superficially and insincerely pretend that they are supporting the Government’s efforts at boosting tourism by calling Georgetown the Garden City of the Caribbean. What a joke. How much longer will the City Council pretend that present conditions in our city, Georgetown, are okay and do not affect the citizenry? Can’t the Minister of Tourism call on the Minister of Communities to remove those square pegs in round holes at City Hall before appropriating more sums of scarce money into the tourism drive?
Best regards,
Samby Jacobus
