A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been abandoned as the capital city and an entirely new capital constructed elsewhere.

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Georgetown is a city whose physical layout, antiquated infrastructure, haphazard development and increasingly disorderly commercial activity have made it almost impossible to govern properly. Under the PNC, Georgetown became a capital that has become an embarrassment to the King after whom it is named. And instead of confronting the fundamental problem, we continue to apply cosmetic treatments.