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Dec 24, 2013 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
‘IDB to fund studies on road to Brazil, deep water harbour’ as reported in the SN of 22 December 2013 is exciting for the potential it suggests. Not only would this benefit Linden and Berbice but the entire economy of Guyana.
We must be very careful now. Constructing such a road should avoid any community acquiring veto power which can perpetually hold the entire nation to ransom. Of course there should be branching road linkage to Linden. For security reasons and under no circumstances should it be the main thoroughfare to Lethem via Linden.
Forcing travelers to pass through Linden should be an option not a requirement, so none becomes a sacrificial hostage. Opening high quality restaurants and hotels as a rest stop, even overnight hotel layover, would be Linden’s own beckoning advertisement of welcome.
Suddenly the Chinese do not look so bad, do they? Relief in road construction was in fact implemented when the PNC reconstructed Sheriff St starting from the East Coast directly to the East Bank leading to the airport. It completely bypassed commercial Georgetown which became an option of personal choice. PNC wisdom was not completely bad, was it?
Before it occurs, our politicians entrusted with our security must learn from the past and avoid endangering people’s lives. During the 2012 Linden protests, travelers passing through from Lethem were routinely attacked, robbed and their vehicles burned and passengers brutalized. Three Guyanese lost their lives and millions of taxpayers’ money was paid out in tribute to irresponsibility. That an illegal tollgate has recently been built to tax travelers is a sign of more to come unless addressed.
Buxton’s strategic location on the East Coast not only facilitated its 2006 crime spree but escalated unnecessary racial fears among innocent passing travellers. Harassment was routine. Noticeable pride that ‘Buxton people stop train’ of a colonial Governor from passing is well known. Buxton’s history was repeated from its originality. That the PNC government scrapped the railways has not been to Buxton or its credit. Karmic payback?
Similarly any Amaila Falls-originated power lines which snake through to the coast should not be laid through Linden. Of course they should be linked in distribution, but not as the main conduit. Safeguarding an entire nation’s productivity is necessary but a constant supply of electricity must however, be paramount. Prudence requires it must not become an opportunity for demanding easy ransom or another lesson to create unnecessary acrimony and bitterness. Everyone will suffer adversely.
As the PNC did in Georgetown, without negatively impacting its growth, Linden’s development and economic progress would impose its own shepherded urgency to effectively attract and maintaining investors’ confidence for their upward mobility. Being penny wise and pound foolish cannot be the best option, especially in consideration that Rome was not built in a day.
Sultan Mohamed
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