Real Guyana's video: Real Dread - GWI Contract Work in Well Road - Part 1

Witness the dread situation faced by residents on a quiet street in North Ruimveldt after contractors working for GWI show up with a brief to lay pipes. Have a listen to the site supervisor and watch the video to the end for the important visual context you'll need to think about how it would feel to be living on this street for the next two months come rain or shine. After tracking a road works contract given out on Cane View Avenue for four months it became clear to me that now is the time to highlight this for I have the footage to prove unless objection is raised right now it is unlikely these residents will see their environment properly restored on completion of works. Do you buy the supervisor's reasoning for leaving all the debris you are about to see piled up for such a long time? Is this a case of turning up to fix one problem but creating five more? If not, what exactly is it? If you are an engineering professional please feel even more welcome to add to this discussion and if any can offer kind words about the condition of this project site please feel doubly welcome for I am unable. Next I ask you to honestly determine whether or not you see any change whatsoever in the way projects like this have been executed between the last administration and the current one. What do we do when even the supervisors seem to need supervision? It was disturbing to note how comfortable the supervisor seemed with the discomfort they had caused residents and as you will hear there seems to be no rush to alleviate this discomfort. Have a look and make up your own mind but on a side note I would like you to observe something in this video I would never normally point out. Leader of the Opposition Bharat Jagdeo seems to have gone to pains to give the impression there is a widespread, coordinated "assault on people of Indian Origin" through discrimination and racism led by the government. Now this is a very touchy subject in Guyana and I am no defender of the government but reading the pronouncements I always feel uncomfortable because inside I know it does not describe what I see. I have friends of all colours and races, many of whom I consider no different to my flesh and blood so this genuinely concerns me. If untruths meant to deliberately provoke racial tension and disharmony comes from the PPP or the APNU Coalition at any point, it must be shut down. If we must break it down, this particular contract is being executed in a predominantly Afro-Guyanese neighborhood by a team that is entirely East-Indian doing work for the state, and to anyone living in South this again marks no difference to how business was conducted under the last administration. My personal view as an outsider is that a much more diverse group of Guyanese now seem able to get contract work but is this the racism Jagdeo is talking about? I doubt it but I know an example like this would never be brought up. Giving the impression there is some sort of mass persecution going on when that is not the case, can only do more harm than good. If you have followed this channel for long enough it will hopefully already be clear to you that the ethnicity of the person in front of the lens is never my point of contention, rather the focus tends to be about getting value from the government as a collective and looking at how well something is executed. If you have not followed this channel for long enough I do hope you see enough videos for that to become clear. This video is fundamentally about wanting the residents of this street to be left with a job well done but I have felt the side note worthy of inclusion because of how stark I find the contrast between what I hear from the PPP/C top brass and what I see day to day. If your experiences are different please share them in the comments. Join me in 5 weeks for part two when the scheduled completion date is nigh but until then, join me as I sigh. We are six peoples but we continue to have one big problem and it's called setting a standard. To rectify this problem can only aid us in the effort to change the minds of the thousands of Guyanese who surely go to bed every night dreaming of life in another land where such a standard does exist and is maintained as best it can be. Is that too much to ask for? Is it too much to work towards? Over to you...