Developing Georgetown’s D’Urban Park

but never will I be disrespectful of the President I voted for. But I briefly peek at both sides of the coin.

On the Friday before the Monday General Elections in May 2015, I listened in agreement and acceptance, as Candidate Granger responded to a voter’s plea that he – the Candidate – get rid of the unsightly, unsafe “jungle” that was D’Urban Park, a historic green space in an unsightly capital city.

The caller-citizen had called into the Candidate on Granger’s final campaign TV programme on Sharma’s Channel 6. Mr Granger explained that the PPP/C government cared little about Georgetown or its youth then promised to restore D’Urban Park and to provide new or upgraded organised Green Spaces in the city.

I’ve since hoped to locate the caller who interacted with the now President. Look how the jungle was transformed! I’m not too fond of those wooden bleachers and I still appreciate the National Park but I’m also glad that the D’Urban Park is still that and not Jubilee and that the Opposition insistence on knowing where all the funding was sourced from did not overwhelm what was achieved after decades of willful neglect.

My current regret is that that project could not attract the additional interest or priority which had been promised. Plans originally announced, replete with a graphic billboard, outlined the further construction of jogging/exercise tracks, play areas for children, recreational space for seniors, among other facilities reaching up to the farthest eastern end accessible.

What has become of those plans? A victim of priorities? Or of Opposition pressure in terms of the first phase financing? I say mobilise to complete the park!

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Consider…

1) Name twelve (12) taxes introduced since May 2015 2) What’s the latest on the GT parking meters “introduction”? On Public Servants’ Salary increases?

3) Away with Bharrat’s LCDS- Low Carbon Development Strategy – Hail up David’s and the RearAdmiral’s brand new GSDS! The Guyana Green State Development Strategy.

‘Til next week!