Having read this article by one Stella Ramsaroop in the Kaieteur News on January 19 2011, i came to the conclusion that indeed Stella has lost her groove.
Here is a woman who is an American preaching to Guyanese that - 'there MUST be a way to bring progress without hurting so many people'.
She was referring to the plans by the Ministry of Public Works to relocate vendors occupying the reserves along the roadway and pavement of the La Penitance market to facilitate the widening of the road to accomadate the increasing number of vehicles which currently cause a large buildup of traffic to enter the city in the moning and leave in the evening.
This woman is clearly suffering from 'the Kaieteur News syndrome' where the most illogical statements are made and if said often it will eventually become the gospel truth and way of life.
What Stella and her Kaieteur news cohorts and fringe elements such as Mark 'racist - blood thirsty' Benschop and Freddy 'name and nature' KISSoon are clearly saying - is that these vendors must be accomadated at the very site at all cost and the authorities must find another way to ease the traffic congestion ( maybe by building a road out into the Demerara river from Ruimveldt to the Georgetown ferry stelling).
The fact is that the vendors were offered an option to set up their stalls on 'punt-trench' in Albouystown which was a former canal, where punts were pulled through when the area was a sugar producing one many decades ago.
Now the vendors shot down this suggestion citing security concerns and the fact that people may not journey to the area to do shopping.
Anyone familiar with the area would know that the current market is actually in the vicinty of Alboystown and on weekends to cater for the increase in shoppers, the vendors lay their products/produce along the roadway way past this community, with no fear of being robbed and shoppers in turn flock for their bargains.
It is typical in any country for people to oppose change because no one appreciates uncertainty and Guyana is no diffrent. However, those who have been trusted with the position of enlightening the nation with practical perspectives for readers to draw their own conclusion on a particular issue are doing a horrible job. Kaieteur News being the main culprit for obvious reasons.
When you have an Editor-in-Chief like Adam Harris who has been given the green light by his boss Glen Lall to attack the Government at all cost for inviting the investment of Guyana Times (a competitor) you end up with exactly the trash we are receiving from this newspaper.
What has now happenned is that the media house has lost the very vital component of maintaining its independence with the constant exposure of the thrival and downright low means by which it would stoop to take a shot at any individual or project associated with the Government. And almost every occasion it has been proven wrong. For those who question my position, whatever happenned to Fip Motilall? Has he fallen off the map, when only a few months ago he was protrayed as worse than Hitler by Kaieteur News.
What this newspaper does is it tarnishes peoples character and then moves on with no regard for how it has destroyed the lives of innocent Guyanese or foreigner who did not fall in line with its position. Numerous examples could be cited but let me get back to Stella and her groove.
Stella was born in a country where in the name of development, entire races were whiped off the face of this planet (American indians), countless famalies were slaughtered (laying of railroad) in fact it was just such a situation which gave rise to the legend of 'Billy The Kid' the famous outlaw. This situation continue to occur even present day - does anyone remember the great 'Financial Crisis' and how many lives were devastated, not just in the US but across the Globe because of American greed in the name of PROGRESS ?
How many cars were built with faults which caused hundreds of lives in the name of progress? How many expendable foreign workers were injured or killed while manufacturing products for American companies and it was all swept under the carpet? Right now there is the case of a few hundred Chinese workers who became ill when they used a chemical to clean the screen of Apple products and a few have written a letter directly to Steve Jobs because they have not been properly compensated and have been fired.
But Stella needs to lecture us about the fate of approximately 20 stall holders who are illegally occupying Government reserves to ply their trade and have refused an alternative offer of relocation to facilitate the opening up of a roadway which will benifit thousands of Guyanese and improve productivity in so many ways in this country.
Rather than being so myopic in her assessment if one should even call it that, she should have had the sense enough to suggest that the authorities could develop the 'Punt Trench' area and work with the stall holders to construct permanaent stalls (as was the case with the water street vendors) and work out an arrangement to ensure a municipal security hut is erected in the area and adequate lighting installed.
Would this not be a better option?
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