Dear Editor,
I have several issues about what is happening in Lusignan and Annandale, (where my parents live). I visit these two villages quite often and so I can uphold my complaints. Let me list with explanations and questions.
1. Trucks drive through narrow “cross” streets and sometimes these streets are just a dam, without any kind of protest and are covered with gravel. Therefore, they are eroding and getting narrower. I invite relevant officials to explore what is available at the two “cross” streets in South and North Annandale. At the same time, these officials should bring a convenient means of transportation to remove the numerous garbage mounts.
2. Junk is collected on a Monday, sometime once a fortnight, when only unemployed people are at home. This means that employed villagers have to find night jobs, dump their junk in vacant lands, or the sidelines ditches, which are now a destination for many. Sometimes the villagers affected by junk are too far from the ditches in the past and have no way of taking their worm barrels that far, so they use the nearest empty lot .
3. A few mechanics use the road, separating Courabane Park from Annandale North (next to the Hindu Temple), to make vehicle repairs. I suggest they use the passage, close to the Main Road, which was earmarked years ago for the Annandale Market (and even lotted out for this purpose). The Government can build a shed for the mechanics and can pay a small fee. The unused toilet, which is now disassembling, may still be reinstalled.
4. The Annandale Market Road, which leads to the Main Road, is of serious concern. On the east side, there are two businesses and they are constantly unloading goods from huge trucks. The damage from this type of activity in the vicinity is a problem for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers. Also, the section is a pick-up point for taxi drivers, who park on both sides of this already damaged narrow road and so the problem is exacerbated.
I ask Minister Nigel Dharamlall and his team to visit and secretly observe events in Lusignan and Annandale. I also invite the general media to come and do some research and, of course, take photos and let the world see what stains here in Guyana “paradise”.
Truly,
Leon Moonsammy Kanhai
