I am a battered Guyanese Citizen. Anyone living in Guyana can understand this. Watch the newscasts, read the newspapers especially over this last week and you will understand what I talking about. Imagine – you pay your taxes and yet this week you’ve been drowning in garbage, mosquitoes and coughing people all around – possibly an outbreak of Dengue that they have still not told us about.  And in all of this the rain falls, the clogged drains full of plastic and low tide means even more mopping up for you. Keep the baby high if you got one, girl!

And to crown this all, if you thought your leaders were going to give you a dash of hope, you know just a little pinch, like the pinch of salt you’re putting in that pot you’re struggling to prepare each day…think again.

Watch spellbound  the madness as they argue whose fault all this is and say we don’t care! The Ministers, the City Council and the Government. Don’t forget to mention Minister Lall who would prefer us all to get sick so this situation would change! I hope you got his inference. He, his family and friends are most likely not included in this group of coughing Guyanese citizens.

If this is not madness tell me what is!

But who’s going to tell these “Leaders” we don’t give a damm who caused this, just fix the problem. That is your job. That is what you are taking my tax dollars and being paid to do!

So Mr. President who runs all of Guyana, from choosing the best colour  to paint the taxi’s (can you believe that with all the challenges we face “our President” has to find time to discuss this too!) to the talk about the LCD’s that isn’t doing anything for my reality, just pay the second quarter money to Hammie, like I had to pay mine and wave your magic wand and fix dis!

You know when someone coming to visit we can fix it then.

So  moving around coughing with rotting garbage all around me, I started thinking of all the ways Guyana batters me “a proud citizen”.

Everyone’s nightmare is GPL, We face the blackouts and the bills are still high as hell. If you think you have a case, or even deserve an explanation, think again. There is no organisation that will even listen.  Don’t mention the PUC – I’ve been through that with a case that still pending 10 years later.

Now what about parking in this dear Georgetown around busy banks. Just recently we read of the numerous occasions persons were robbed coming from the Bank. Shouldn’t someone be worried about you and me. No not necessarily! Let’s remove a few parking spaces outside Scotia Bank, just so the President does not have to wait if someone’s reversing in Carmichael Street.  So you go park around the corner or in the back streets and hold your bag or envelope tight and pray their is no thief, while he speeds by with his security.  You think you count!

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