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Aug 20, 2011 Letters
Dear Editor,
A famous American once said “our greatest responsibility is to be good to our ancestors”. A Government that cannot care for its dead is a Government that is unjust, and is a prime candidate to destroy our future. If you cannot preserve the memory of the past, then you are not fit and proper to provide peace, social justice and good governance to all.
It is with great sadness that I observed the Le Repentir cemetery on August 3, 2011. I lived through the PNC regime and they never abused the physical remains of our ancestors as they are being abused today.
That place of rest is a mini-forest in the making, where trees have now replaced the grass that was there before, maybe this is the LCDS in action in Georgetown.
I sat with some ladies while doing my political work in South Georgetown, all of whom told me they were Christians. They were all extremely dissatisfied that they are being forced to consider cremation rather that their preferred wish of burial. Is this what a Government does, deny a people their final wishes?
This for me is an absolute abuse of a people by the PPP. As a Hindu, if anyone was to not provide a place of cremation for me, my soul would depart the body with great resistance.
Thus those who desire a clean place for their final rites, especially those from the Islamic and Christian faith, must demand that a pool of funds be set aside every month for maintenance of this primary cemetery in Georgetown.
How much worse can this elected oligarchy become, when a people cannot even chose their mode of burial anymore? This Government of Guyana has money to spend. $1,000 million on executive travel for the top leaders but cannot find the money every month for the final resting place of the human remains of their subjects?
The Government has close to $4.5 million to pay in cash and kind to the top leader in Government and the Leader of the Opposition in pension every month ($50 million a year for 2 people) but does not have time with the physical remains of our ancestors. I like, thousands of Guyanese have the remains of grandfathers and other relatives in the Le Repentir Cemetery and we all know this is not how we treat our ancestors. This disrespect for the remains of the dead will change under an AFC Government. In the first year of the next AFC Government, the Prison Services will be used to organize the prisoners to clean the Le Repentir cemetery grave by grave, block by block until the entire cemetery is clean again. The drains shall be re-dug, the road shall be fixed and pretty trees shall be planted and a subvention shall be given every year to the City Council and all NDCs country wide to clean all cemeteries in their jurisdiction.
The Alliance for Change (AFC) will be training thousands of young people in the art and science of landscaping. The AFC shall offer them their basic tools free of cost (cutlass, rake, fork, etc) and set them up with a low cost loan to buy their grass cutters, upon graduation to commence the beautification of Guyana. No leader of any pedigree can live in a country that is a national garbage bin.
Our Khemraj Ramjattan and Sheila Holder made it very clear to us, they shall not continue this PPP tradition of Guyana being one big garbage bin. The AFC shall lead in the launching of the national beautification campaign, which will enforce building codes, slashing of the grass on our national roadway, planting of trees and the development of parks and gardens at strategic locations. Yes we can!
The PPP will try to fool you that there is no money for this but the forensic audit on just a few contracts with their business buddies will release enough funds to deliver on this dream of making Guyana the garden of the Caribbean. Change is here. Guyana will change with the Alliance for Change (AFC).
Sasenarine Singh
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