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 \u2013 you pay your taxes and yet this week you\u2019ve been drowning in garbage, mosquitoes and coughing people all around \u2013 possibly an outbreak of Dengue that they have still not told us about.\u00a0 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!<\/p>\n
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\u2019re putting in that pot you\u2019re struggling to prepare each day…think again.<\/p>\n
Watch spellbound \u00a0the madness as they argue whose fault all this is and say we don\u2019t care! The Ministers, the City Council and the Government. Don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n
If this is not madness tell me what is!<\/p>\n
But who\u2019s going to tell these \u201cLeaders\u201d we don\u2019t 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!<\/p>\n
So Mr. President who runs all of Guyana, from choosing the best colour\u00a0 to paint the taxi\u2019s (can you believe that with all the challenges we face \u201cour President\u201d has to find time to discuss this too!) to the talk about the LCD\u2019s that isn\u2019t 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!<\/p>\n
You know when someone coming to visit we can fix it then.<\/p>\n
So \u00a0moving around coughing with rotting garbage all around me, I started thinking of all the ways Guyana batters me \u201ca proud citizen\u201d.<\/p>\n
Everyone\u2019s 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.\u00a0 Don\u2019t mention the PUC \u2013 I\u2019ve been through that with a case that still pending 10 years later.<\/p>\n
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\u2019t someone be worried about you and me. No not necessarily! Let\u2019s remove a few parking spaces outside Scotia Bank, just so the President does not have to wait if someone\u2019s reversing in Carmichael Street.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 You think you count!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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