Carrot Bay Fisherman’s Dock contract signed- Shaina M. Smith
Smith was speaking last evening, May 18, 2015 at a community meeting in Carrot Bay in the First District where she hopes to unseat incumbent Virgin Islands Party candidate Hon Andrew A. Fahie come Monday June 8, 2015.
“As we promised when we were out here about two weeks ago…myself, [Premier Dr The Hon D. Orlando Smith]...Hon Myron V. Walwyn and Hon Archibald C. Christian were out here and we told the fishermen that we would be back and that we would be back with something and we have completed the drawings. I think that deserves a clap,” said Smith.
According to Smith, for many years residents of Carrot Bay and the First District have been discussing the need for the fisherman’s dock. She said she was speaking earlier yesterday to a young man who had received a phone call from someone who told him that the waves were pushing his boat up against the rocks.
“So this is a very important step in terms of meeting a community need. Persons make investment in their vessels and it is important that they are able to use it in a safe way,” she said. She noted too that she has heard stories of persons falling on rocks when they were trying to get off or get on a boat and said that it is a very dangerous situation that had to be mitigated immediately.
Smith said Government involved an engineer and a contract has been signed and the work is ready to commence. “That’s action people…that’s what action looks like,” she emphasised.
Polyclinic in Capoons Bay
Speaking at the meeting, Minister for Health and Social Development and NDP At Large candidate Honourable Ronnie W. Skelton said the NDP, once elected into office again, plans to build a polyclinic in Capoons Bay to help deal with management of healthcare as a primary institution.
“The clinic is a first stop. It doesn’t say that if there is a major emergency that you wouldn’t go straight to the hospital. The clinic will look at persons, evaluate them and either deal with them on the spot or refer them to Peebles Hospital,” said Hon Skelton.
He said it is important for government to do this so that the hospital is not overwhelmed. “One of the difficulties we have at Peebles is that everybody rushes to its emergency room but when you go there you may meet a lot of people,” he said.
Smith’s passion
Smith said that for her, she cannot see things out of place and not want to set them right. “So it is out of that passion that I decided that I am going to run in the First District in this upcoming election and as much as the talk is that it will be a hard task because someone has been there for 16 years, I have been here for 12 of those 16 years and I don’t know about anybody else but you should judge people on performance and what their record shows,” she said.
Don’t take our culture for granted
Smith acknowledged that while the economy is thriving people are still out of work and as such they need to create the opportunities for persons to find work. She said there are opportunities for tourism and clean up jobs in the First District.
She said the territory’s culture must not be taken for granted as it could become one of the attractions for visitors and as such needs to be carefully preserved.
According to her, because one might have grown up experiencing certain cultural practices one might think that they are something that people won’t be interested in seeing or experiencing. “This is also a way for us to preserve our heritage for those who just know about IPads and video games,” she said.
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44 Responses to “Carrot Bay Fisherman’s Dock contract signed- Shaina M. Smith”
Shaina go sit down you ain't ready
These VINDICTIVE people don't or refuse to realize that it was not the district rep that they were victimizing but we the people of the 1st and now they want OUR votes to put them back in. NONSENSE!!!!