I doubt this government will be given another chance in 2020

October 27, 2015 | By KNews | Filed Under Letters, Source

Dear Editor,

Visiting one of my in-laws in Zeelugt during the past week, I was sadden to hear her moans after receiving her first water bill under this new administration although she’s a pensioner. She and many others are faced with the same dilemma but the cries do not stop there. During the day, water is turned off around 10am and turn on in the afternoon after 3pm.

At Cornelida Ida, water flowing through the main is switched off around 6pm and switched back on around 6:15am next day.

Most people have to resort to storing water in containers especially cane cutters who leave their house between 4-5am. At Uitvlugt, the water is switched off after 9pm and switched on back in the following morning.

Many of these people don’t have meter but they still have to pay the full amount that is requested by GWI, whilst many without meter gets the full 24hrs service paying the same. Before the elections, I penned a letter commending the pressure that I was getting surprisingly after the election.

I have to go back to using a bowl to full a bucket. With all the promises before the election I would have expected better, sadly like many others I am disappointed.

Editor, after five months this present Government has failed to deliver on their promises and instead of admitting their failure, they reward themselves a huge salary increase and the President justify this by saying that they give up better to come and serve this nation. I would not talk about the method some of them use to attain their position but, many of them were earning money in a month that the average man cannot earn in a year and they still give themselves more although they now enjoy duty free concessions, free water, electricity, phone bills, security, gasoline travelling allowances etc.

So quite frankly given all of that, are they satisfied what they are earning now? They were the ones going around the country begging voters to give them a chance and now it seems as if they chance the get is to satisfy their needs and not the nation and with all the promises, they don’t seems capable of fulfilling. The road accidents, robberies, killings, blackouts, corruption at the different agencies still continue, so what changes are we to get with additional bills to foot their luxurious lifestyles? Finally Editor, a recently a survey was published with the results about school dropouts and drugs usage amongst our youths and years before I wrote a letter citing the high increase and used Zeelugt as an example. To date it still continues and vulnerable youths are being introduced to drugs and sex and crime. The resulting is infection with HIV. No one, organization or Ministry visit that village to offer help, but everyone jumps and cheers when the organization came, spend a huge amount of money to conduct survey to tell us what we already knows without any help.

Our legal system need great improvement, instead of visiting places to tell us about the condition and blaming the previous administration, they should actually do something about it. We already know about the condition.

We don’t need a reminder. Health Centres and Hospital are still without drugs. Dr. Jennifer Webster got charged and to date her matter is still pending in court. Similarly many other people are locked away in prison awaiting trial, but unlike her they don’t have freedom. We are reading everyday about corruption by the previous administration and this present administration’s intentions of getting them charged. But given the way our legal administration operates, I am quite sure that another election will come and if they are to get charged, their matters will still be pending in the courts.

Are we going to actually see improvement or continue to dream about it? In case they haven’t notice; things were going better under the previous administration. When the late President Desmond Hoyte became president for Guyana, he went all out to make life better for Guyanese and he was praised so much for his effort that people even give him the name Desmond Persaud but on Election Day they forget the good things he did and voted his party out of governance. He didn’t had five years to do it, but with five months gone already under this administration and no improvement compared to Desmond Hotye’s record, I doubt if this administration will be given another chance especially with their record so far.

Sahadeo Bates