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| City Hall says it still has a program to pull down unsafe Buildings.
Posted: 23 Sep 2013 04:48 PM PDT This building at the corners of Bourda and Robb Streets has been identified for removal by city authorities and is a major concern not only to nearby residents but stall holders as well, but according to Town clerk Carol Sooba the owners The Methodist Church of Guyana wanted to employ their own demolition crew to […]
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There needs to be tax breaks and other incentives, to encourage Guyanese to preserve the architectural heritage of Guyana, particularly Georgetown, this was one of the views expressed by an architect, who has practiced in the Caribbean Mrs. Saskia Hardt, who is the wife of the United States Ambassador to Guyana.
Mrs. Hardt was asked by the National Trust of Guyana to deliver a guest lecture looking at Guyana’s Heritage through the lens of a foreigner. Continue reading
By Stabroek staff – March 18, 2012 Editorial|
City Hall - Georgetown-Guyana
Cultural policy and more particularly the preservation of the nation’s material heritage was one area which none of the political parties had much to say about prior to the election, and with all that is going on in the political field currently they certainly have not applied their minds to the matter since. One waits to see whether Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh will give any acknowledgement to the issue in the Budget, although one holds out very little hope that he will; like most of his colleagues he has evinced little interest in such matters.
In fact, the record of the government is abysmal in this department (not, mind you, that that of its predecessor was any better), and the stain which above all others disfigures its image is the destruction of the old New Amsterdam hospital by vandals. That Dr Ramsammy, who was Minister of Health at the time, could issue such placatory statements intended to allay public anxieties about the survival of the structure, while all the time it was being dismantled board by board, speaks volumes about his ingrained philistinism and that of the administration he served. Continue reading
MARCH 1, 2012 | BY KNEWS | FILED UNDER NEWS
City Mayor, Hamilton Green, has blamed continuous heavy rainfall, non-functional drainage structures and clogged drains for flooding in and around Georgetown yesterday, (February 29).
Green held an emergency press briefing at City Hall where he said that even if all the drainage structures were operational Georgetown would have still experienced flooding because of the City’s capacity to drain only one inch of rainfall in a 24-hour period.
He stressed that during the course of the rainfall Georgetown experienced 5.15 inches of rainfall which is unusual but added that with unpredictable weather patterns anything is possible.
Green emphasized that visits to the various drainage facilities across the Capital City, Georgetown earlier during the day revealed that the relief structures at Kingston, Princes Street, and Lamaha Street were non-functional. Continue reading
Flooding and garbage – commentary
Flooding and garbage
Posted By Stabroek staff On December 2, 2012 –Editorial |
There is nothing more depressing than Georgetown on a wet day. It is bad enough in the dry season, but in the rain, all those piles of sodden garbage ooze goo onto the parapets, while the saturated litter from the filthy gutters is swept by the flood-waters onto the roadways. It’s enough to make even the most stoical citizen nauseous. For the average resident trudging through the refuse and the effluent, it feels as though they have been transported to one of the planet’s most notorious slums.
And as they pick their soggy way to work or school, they must surely wonder why it is that those who rule over them don’t seem to be offended by what is deeply offensive to everyone else. The answer is, that the denizens of ‘Ville I or ‘Ville II don’t experience the flooding and the rubbish directly; they just go whizzing past in their hermetically sealed Prados (or whichever model is currently in vogue), to their sanitary retreats on the East Coast, where in their little universe the water courses unhindered through the gutters, and not even a matchstick is permitted to pollute the parapet. So why should they care about the rest of us? And of course, they don’t. Continue reading →
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