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Mar 22, 2009 Letters
Dear Editor,
Everyday millions, if not billions, of dollars are being squandered and misspent in Guyana.
Millions of dollars are being spent on Healthcare in this country, in the hospitals, health centres, and other medical centres. Millions of dollars are being spent on Agriculture in the country, to upgrade and maintain sea-defence structures, prevent flooding, aiding farmers, etc. etc. Millions of dollars are being spent in the financial sector – so much that a major insurance company is in shambles at the moment. Millions are spent to pave the way for proper import and export of vehicles, machinery and other items.
Millions are spent every year on the police and Ministry of Home Affairs, to provide safety, protection, service, and respect to the citizens of Guyana. Millions of dollars are being spent every single year in the education sector, to build and upgrade schools all over Guyana, to improve student-learning situations by providing textbooks, computers and other effective learning materials.
Millions are spent in the Ministry of Social Services and Security each year but still housewives are being beaten, abused and brutally murdered every single day in the newspapers. Yet, our senior citizens have to go to hell and back to get what is owed to them. Yet, a certain blood-sucking Scheme in this country robs Guyanese of what they rightly deserve every single day. Yet, homeless children and beggars wander our streets corner to corner every single day.
Editor, billions of dollars are spent each year to pay the workers who are employed in the above-mentioned sectors (and others as well that were not mentioned here) to carry out a certain job to the best of their ability.
Yet, there is the doctor that is hurrying the process whenever he or she is seeing a patient, the nurse who gets angry whenever a person seeks health care in the middle of the night, a hospital which has no water supply to carry out X- Ray and frustrated members of the public who are given the royal runaround every time they visit these facilities.
Is the government getting value for its money?
Yet, sea-defense structures are destroyed or not properly maintained every year, villages and towns become flooded, residents suffer, the authorities will say it is an act of God, that “accumulation of water” must take place. Yet they visit these communities as if that will help in any way. Yet, the authorities will make promises that things will get better, that we’re better off than most countries in the world. Yet, many naive people in Guyana believe every word they say — believing every lying word that comes out of their mouths.
Yet, there are the newspapers and TV editors who will silence views that oppose the government. Yet, they will not publish letters in the press which attack the government. Yet, government- praising programmes are aired continuously every single day, repeating themselves daily, on the television. Yet, this form of brainwashing continues and sadly, yes, citizens who do not know any better love to watch them and believe the lies that are being peddled.
Yet, insurance scams are being carried out, and they tell us that we have a sound financial sector. Yet, dishonesty and lies abound in the body which is responsible for the sound importing and exporting of items in and out of Guyana — so much that they’re calling for polygraph tests to be done. That should be very interesting.
Yet, hundreds of crimes go unsolved and filed away. Yet, there are so many unsolved murders. Yet, those entrusted to serve and protect this nation come under heavy criticisms so often from all corners of society. Yet, there is a back-log of cases in the judicial system, shortage of judges and magistrates, overcrowded prisons, alleged brutality against Guyanese. Yet, we have those entrusted to protect and serve Guyanese writing reports from members of the public with pen and paper instead of using computers to allow for faster report writing. Yet, I had to wait the other day over one hour for my report to be taken because pen and paper were being used to write reports. Yet, these places do not have computers but every single government office has computers. Yet, Editor, we boast of Guyana going high- tech.
Where or when or how does the buck stop in dear land of Guyana? Where does the mismanagement, corruption and irresponsible acts end? Many Guyanese are living one day at a time in this country — not knowing where the next meal would come from, where the next thousand dollar bill will appear from, when the next Western Union office will make contact with them to collect some foreign cash, when the next barrel or box would arrive at Laparkan’s wharf and when the next foreigner would give them a few goodies.
The lives of many Guyanese are lived in despair, hopelessness, gloom, desolation, despondency and sheer unhappiness because the system is flawed, because they have to endure the system — a system that caters only for the ‘big man’ and not the ‘small man’.
The above mentioned situation, put in a proper perspective, paints a picture of a people and society that is stressed-out from the daily abuses of the ‘system’. We are indeed a beaten and battered people without hope, except to carry on and fight the good fight every Guyanese is called to fight. The ‘system’, I believe, wouldn’t change. Those in high offices in this land are too comfortable in their air-conditioned offices, in their six million dollars vehicles, in the mansions in which they live, on the vacations they take every year.
And, so, the cycle continues in Guyana, monies are being spent but only a portion of that money is spent effectively and with some real purpose.
Our tax dollars are wasted in a system has been malfunctioning. Yes, we have moved a certain point since the so-called return to democracy. Anyone with a real conscience would never deny that we have had development. But, and there’s always a ‘but’, the huge gaping holes that we have in the system are not being covered. Nobody seems to care. And so, we must pay for our ignorance. That is the reason why good can never come to Guyana.
Somehow, though, with all the daily stresses in Guyana, I seem not motivated to migrate to other lands. I am ever determined to make a living in Guyana although I feel so confused and angry at the level of mismanagement in the various entities that run this country. I can see so many others not having the patience and patriotism which I seem to have leaving our shores for brighter tomorrows. Can you blame them?
Leon Jameson Suseran
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