“Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Monday, November 18, 2013
Dear Editor,
I write as a concerned resident of Chan Pine Ridge Village in Orange Walk District to register my concern regarding the several impassable streets that are currently creating very unnecessary burdens to the villagers, particularly children who attend school from Monday to Friday, and hence having to meticulously decipher (more than they do in their Math lessons) which pothole is less deep whenever heading to their classes.
The deplorable condition of these streets in my village comes about not only as a consequence of the recent torrential rains that flooded most of the villages up North, but also as a result of perhaps the deliberate ill-supervision of BWS, whose project of water expansion at my village has already been completed three months ago, failing subsequently to honour their word and promise to scrape and fill the streets back to the excellent condition that it initially was before they started their massive excavation all over the village for the underground laying of pipes and other materials.
The streets are indeed in a very disgraceful and certainly embarrassing state, aggravated even more so by the mere fact that more than 90% of Chan Pine Ridge’s families have connected to the water system and have already met their their first BWS water bills, notwithstanding having to withstand the many inconveniences of the seriously disfigured streets in the village. Access to the school, churches, shops, community clinic, and bus stops have been significantly disrupted and to some extent even obstructed.
I humbly call on BWS, as a taxpayer and as an educator, to please honour their word of rehabilitating our streets fortwith for the good of all. We cannot continue to voice our concerns to our dormant Village Council who, quite regretably, add insult to injury by always reiterating that they cannot do anything.
Our village’s streets are now in disarray; our families have connected to your water system; you get to now keep the profits. I have a very simple question for you BWS: “Is this fair business?”
Sincerely,
Germán Tzul
Teacher
Sadie Vernon Technical High School