Crawford shows us who
November 13, 2020) seems diametrically opposite to his words.
According to Golding: “There’s no need to relocate the residents. They don’t want to be relocated. Just clean the gully and maintain the gully edge; that’s all that needs to happen.”
The news item also noted, among other things: “Describing the homes on Weise Road as ‘well-established’, Golding criticised the prime minister’s address in Parliament on Tuesday about informal settlements.” We cannot continue to be penny wise and pound foolish. This approach, if we can call it that, has proven severely costly, especially in terms of precious human lives lost.
“Most of the area, he said, is unstable due to several geological forces.” The ‘he’ being quoted by The Gleaner on November 22, 2020 was Professor Simon Mitchell, a sedimentary geologist and head of the Earthquake Unit at The University of the West Indies. Mark Golding is a lawyer by profession.
Professor Mitchell also said: “You are dealing with relatively unstable banks of these river systems. These river systems can migrate, and if they move they will take whatever they go through. This is one of the reasons why you have to think about training the rivers properly to try and prevent their migration.”
Mr Golding must make up his mind whether is he serious about assisting this country to move forward by leap and bounds instead of inches.
no more!
James Central’s Heroy Clarke, who recently said: “I am not prepared to support the notion of chip and spray. If we get one dollar, and that can only do one chain of proper roadway, let us do that one chain.” The occasion was a November 24, 2020 “Constituency Development Fund (CDF) committee that turned back a three multimillion-dollar road rehabilitation projects for St Elizabeth South Eastern after Chair Juliet Holness and others raised strong objection to the quality of the proposed material for the works.” (Jamaica Observer, November 25, 2020)
Enough of the darn ‘frighten Fridays’ in our politics who use it as a means of satisfying their status deficits!
Enough of the ‘never see come see dem’ who get absorbed by the trappings of State office and forget their obligations to the people!
We sure do not need any more political leaders who use their political appointments as mere crutches of convenience.
We need more political leaders who implement fiscally and socially responsible policies and programmes that will help Jamaica become a “place of choice to live, work, raise families, and do business”.
consolation prize?