City Council must fix this part of Bourda Street

Jun 17, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
I would like to know if any senior municipal official of the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown has ever taken a walk along Bourda Street between South and North Roads. That roadway has not been repaired, resurfaced or redone in over twenty five years. It is in an absolutely deplorable state, not just with pot holes but in fact craters which persons fall into frequently sometimes injuring themselves.
After dark it becomes much more difficult to pick your way along this awful road resulting in even greater risk to life and limb. All the vendors at the Bourda Market and along that roadway are required to pay the Council a not insignificant rent or fee, property owners in the ward of Bourda are obligated to pay their property rates, a part of which according to the Council’s budget is supposed to go towards the maintenance of existing and construction of new roads.
This never happens, as for years now the Council has abdicated its responsibility of road maintenance in Georgetown, seemingly awaiting the central government to do all road works whilst they spend the sums budgeted for roads on other unconnected expenditure. The Council should be ashamed of itself. How could they ignore this vital road? The Bourda Green, the Bourda Market, the City Constabulary Bourda Outpost, the Bourda Cemetery , the Public Health Headquarters are all located along there, so in addition to the vendors and shoppers the Council is also ignoring its own workers who operate from these facilities. That is City Management at its worst.
Joseph Bourda the Member of the Court of Policy and former owner of Plantation Vlissengen would hang his head in shame if he could see what the new Mayor and Councillors are doing to the area. So too would be the many prominent citizens of Georgetown whose remains are contained in the family vaults in the enclosed burial ground that is now surrounded by vendor’s shacks and guarded round the clock by junkies. Shame on the Council!
Sambu Jacobus

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