Greetings fellow readers,
It is with esteem privilege that I’ve found reason to follow up with another letter of opinion, frustration or just lack thereof. Now am I to understand that the author in a letter captioned in your paper, “Quantifying the level of greening in Bartica” dated October 28, 2016, isn’t an outright defence of his worship and fellow deputies of the Bartica township. The author made reference to some political stirrings and hidden agenda; well let me say quite frankly, I can’t believe that because I had my views to share, it was deemed “some hidden political agenda”… it would leave one with the position that the current state of events shouldn’t have been highlighted since it would deem to be of “political in nature”.
Outside of Bartica, the bigger picture is Guyana and many other great places of interest. I think I’ve made mention that our plight for electricity is a well-documented one (nothing else to add to that). Irrespective of who is running the show, one just doesn’t say “they’ve inherited the problem”. It brings into the picture “GEC” days. How does that statement bring relief to the “levelled minded citizens”? You see, when we talk about concerns of this community we have to talk about the complexity of it; when there is no electricity, there is no potable water. Many can relate to this fact, but despite some reasoning that the population has grown thus the plant doesn’t have the ability to generate the energy needed… it’s called “forward planning”.
I think this writer should discuss about how incapable the station is to deliver. If I am to quote or to say that the previous administration had indeed reflected on how the plant needs to be supplemented to offset energy needs, a new plant was indeed on the cards. Again my research has shown such, so if again it points to my hidden agenda or political stirrings, then I have none. I’m associated with none party. I’m just pointing the readers and writers what is already stated.
This “greening”, it’s a good thing the writer mentioned about the solid waste issue that we have because even that has become an eyesore, but of recent the site was graded and most refused to fill the area that was fully occupied, but what next?
Which other area has been identified to become the dump site? Because at least every day, if I’m not mistaken we have two collectors picking up refuse (one private and one from the council) and they dumping at the same site as we speak. Just a thought though, it seems persons are getting into the idea that there have been receptacles to dispose refuse in but never used it in the later part of the said “23 years” they claimed the “garbage situation has gotten out of control”! Is it due to the fact that they now know about the “levels of greening taking place”? Or are they showing respect to the environment that should’ve been done years now and not just because the “new dispensation” putting bins all over?
Was it a political thing or a mind thing? I’m guessing most readers would agree with the latter.
While the opposite grouping would give thanks to the new dispensation… an ideal example is our capital city… but it seems as if the deputy mayor can “walk with her high heels at the dump site”. She’s working none the less, if you don’t believe me, anything that happens, it is related on the Facebook page. Oops, but only some can access the Internet because while some have electricity, others are not so fortunate.
Of course “I would want to be seen on the ground when any capital project is going on, that’s one way to indicate my interest and that I’m not just waiting on pay day.”
The green spaces are good but how does it serve the Bartica population at large? I think that should the people of the scheme occupy the park, then I guess it serves them mostly. Nothing wrong with that cause it’s a prerogative that most housing schemes have a recreational area; outside of that aspect, they have the Mongrippo ball field, which is now being graded to my own estimation another area deem for green space.
But what of our employment rate and liveable wages? Of recent, we’ve had another young miner being ruthlessly killed for earning an honest dollar. How do the green spaces help to combat this? I think many would agree that the funds could have been used to build or occupy several government buildings (so called white elephants) from the previous administration to have a Technical Institute.
What we have is a brain drain of young men heading into the interior for want of better pay and use of their hands on skills they learn.
Why this?
It is fact that when one leaves home to “hussle” they find it hard to return home to uplift the needs of the home and community at large, so why not bring the institution here instead of having to travel outside of Bartica to acquire such skills?
What do we do next?
Regards,
Niranjan
