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One would hope that the powers that be learn from the Brickdam fire

Oct 05, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

One would hope that the powers to be at the various government agencies learn something from the disaster at Brickdam Police station. Key decision makers in government should read the comments made by the President, on visiting the site and read them every day for the next few years. Spot On. As for the police station, is the public to understand that in 2021, an institution as critical as the police station, did not have any massive fireproof or water proof vaults? No investment made in fireproof or waterproof rooms either?; to store and safeguard evidence and key documents; collectively from years back to present?
These are standard workplace features in mission critical and sensitive areas. We would also hope that the expected-Investigative Panel have an extended mandate to review the workplace features of all mission critical government agencies in Guyana specifically for:- FireProof/Waterproof Rooms or Vaults. The optics look bad for a small country rolling in petro dollars, not to have these features in place in certain offices/buildings. Just as important; are online systems that could retrieve ALL critical documents, regardless of year of origination, all of which can be implemented by graduates in this country. No need to look outside for that talent. Granted, the physical hardcopy documents should exist, but how about the plans to protect them from destruction?
Sprinkler systems or functional and well positioned fire extinguishers is another issue altogether. Hopefully, we don’t come to the crossroads in the court system where cases are dismissed because documents were destroyed and there was absolutely nothing in place to protect them or back them up online. Lessons learned.

Yours truly,
Chi Kansi

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