So, why can't we use the internet (technology) to educate ourselves and take a stand. Guyanese Christmas is going to be healthy if the gutters continue to build in trash, overflow, and if the poor are forced to utilize what rots. Guyanese need some savvy person to explain in layman terms how money comes into Guyana and goes out. They have a right to ask if not a cent is coming to them. Because, really and truely, when you walk down the street you have to ask if any money at all is going into the respectability of the Guyanese people. The taxi driver said to me that he don't understand how they could talk about tourism and then give the tourist trash to smell and walk through and buildings that look on the verge of collapse.
Guyanese, like the taxi driver, blame themselves. One man said that he feels his fellow people are just too docile. They not taking a stand. He want to know where the money going. I interviewed a woman this morning and she said that they getting money to preserve the forest and all the Amerindians getting the shaft because they didn't know that signing the papers would stop them from using all the resouces for living. They can't build, etc.
The taxi driver said that the government and the City Council at war and, therefore, the money is not getting to places it should.
The garbage dump is now out of town and closes at 5 p.m. If the garbage truck is late it has to return. What then happens? He said that the private garbage collectors then just dump the garbage in a neigborhood that has no protection.
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