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Feb 08, 2013 Letters
The Editor,
The letter in the media written by Mr. Hubert Roberts, titled “Georgetown citizens should awake from their slumber” is timely.
The citizens should not only awake from their slumber, but by now should be in revolt against Municipal and National Authorities to demonstrate their abhorrence about the present state of affairs, certainly unacceptable, but need not have been.
He called upon the Ministers of Health, Tourism, Industry and Commerce and the Environmental Protection Agency to do something.
I have pleaded for this kind of cooperation many times; pointing out that conditions within the city require not only those agencies, but all of us, including the President to find a modus vivendi to save the city.
It is no secret that set aside the lawlessness and indiscipline, which for some time has been eating away the fabric of our society.
I have written to the President, past and present, pointing out that after all, Georgetown is our Capital and its integrity should certainly be above petty party politics, personalities and what appears to be a misreading of the essence of democracy and what is good for the nation and our youth.
The writer of the letter must encourage others to speak up and demand much more than public relation ploys that have left us in this squalor we call a city.
One example is this; the Inter American Development Bank when it finally agreed and funded the Solid Waste project, determined that a public education
awareness programme was vital. This should have either preceded, or be put in place at the same time as the construction of the Haags Bosch Landsite Facility.
This is over seven years ago.
When the Minister within the Ministry of Local Government announced last month that such a programme would commence, in response to a query of mine, the Minister could not say how much money was available for this public education programme.
They say fact can be stranger than fiction. Why this delay? Wwas it deliberate? Were the funds misspent or misdirected?
Or, is this a charade which parallels that statement of a previous Minister of Local Government that he would be glad for a health crisis in Georgetown?
As before, let the public know that I stand ready and able to work with the agencies named in Hubert Robert’s letter and others to save our city.
Resources are available to government (the Environmental Fund and Lottery), I guarantee the writer and others that, in a few short months, we can transform Georgetown, but more particularly, not only transform but maintain, if we truly cooperate.
What makes this situation painful is that we have the human and financial resources, this in addition to goodwill and concern among our citizens.
Citizens must rise up, if once again the government ignores this and other pleadings.
I said at a public forum that we also need divine intervention. All good is possible.
Hamilton Green
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