Dear Editor,
As someone who remembers not that very long ago, when Georgetown was celebrated as the ‘Garden City’ and the envy of the Caribbean, when the city’s drains and alleys were routinely cleaned, with the Guyana Fire Service being co-opted by the City Council to regularly power wash the pavements and flush the wide canals, when the roads, streets and avenues were well maintained, the streets and pavements particularly in the commercial areas were kept free of itinerant and stationary vendors allowing persons to walk the streets freely without being harassed, when the parapets were well manicured and the trees along the streets were pruned and trimmed, flowering and providing shade, when the Le Repentir Cemetery was like a huge park with palms and other trees lining the roadways and beautiful flowers on the parapets, when the various municipal markets were kept clean and safe from petty thieves, and when it was a pleasure to shop in them, I sit and shake my head and wonder how we got into this absolutely disgusting, chaotic and abominable state.
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