NDP Gov’t putting ‘cart before the horse’- VG resident
“It is a forum so we can agree to disagree without being disagreeable,” said Mrs O. J. Cordella Faulkner, the mother of Mrs Faulker-Williams, as she continued, “What I think the Ninth District really needs is priority.”
After giving an illustration of how a house is built and how one goes about getting the various resources, Mrs Faulkner noted that one puts the ‘horse before the cart’ and when looking at the way things she alleged are being done on Virgin Gorda it gives one the impression that the government of the day is putting the ‘cart before the horse’.
“If you notice right here in Virgin Gorda, as I repeat myself, there is no priority. They saying they are going to give us a clinic and they start to build now. Couldn’t we had started before we build playground over there? Playground cost $700,000, that clinic could have probably been finished by now, there is no priority,” said the woman to a loud round of applause.
“They talking about senior citizens and they talk about this and they talk about that wouldn’t it be (more) better to start the hospital or mini hospital they call it before they build that playground over there. How many times the kids are going to go in the playground, how many activities are going on there? It is so not right, it is politics, this is what you call this thing, politics, and we have to be mindful, priority works first.”
If it’s not broken don’t fix it!
Mrs Faulkner’s attention was then turned to the paving of roads. “As the sister said they gone and pave Millionaire Street. There is a saying ‘if he nah bruk nah fix ham’, it wasn’t broken and yet we fix it.”
Earlier, Virgin Gorda resident and Mrs BVI Shevon A. Findlay had her take on several issues which included that of the paving of roads. She alluded to the “wild move” of paving a road named ‘Millionaire Road’ in Valley Virgin Gorda. She said she was appalled that the road was in an excellent state yet was the first to have been recapped recently by the government of the day, leaving several others which require urgent remedial works.
As alluded to earlier in the night during the presentation of Mrs Faulkner-Williams, there is dire need for priority and lots of community forum sessions where issues affecting residents are brought to the fore, ventilated, possible solutions recommended before any action is taken, including being taken by the District Representative to the House of Assembly.
Don’t ask, demand!
This was further supported by several of her supporters, including her mother who said, “You see them (Government), that is why we have to get together as a community and demand, don’t ask demand because if you have all this tourism coming into this country by right some of it should be coming back to us. We don’t have to stand up and listen to them anymore, we must have a voice, and we should be a force to reckon with. When we have community meetings like this, say what you need to say and when we stand before them elected or not elected as the case might be you say what you have to say and don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid of their faces stand up, and I say don’t ask demand it,” said Mrs Faulkner
She said that in the rush to get back into government lots of little jobs are being given out for which she hopes all the youth toiling daily in the hot sun get paid.
“Now they have these poor little boys on the side of the streets working all day, I hope they get paid you know, I hope they get paid. They sweeping the streets, and they so anxious, they doing anything. All these things are politics, what happen to the last three and a half years? Nothing has been done and right now everything is being done in a hurry,” she said as she also noted that while she is a native of Antigua, she has lived most of her life in Virgin Gorda and she has all her status that allows her to speak out and vote too.
“So I am one of you all, I have all my rights so I can talk, we have to demand not because Stephanie is my daughter! I will tell them what I have to tell them I am not afraid….. I don’t want no promise, I want the real thing.”
According to Mrs Faulkner-Williams, a massive open-air forum is in the making and residents are to stay tuned for a major announcement that will be made soon.
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20 Responses to “NDP Gov’t putting ‘cart before the horse’- VG resident”
THIS MAN CAME BACK FROM A MASSIVE STROKE FROM A CLOT IN HIS BRAIN.... TO CONTINUE TO SERVE HIS PEOPLE...THA TS COMITTMENT...GOD SENT HIM BACK FOR A REASON.... SO INSTEAD OF CRITICIZING HIM VOTE FOR HIM
They in turn, hired others to do their jobs to the tune of some $20-million. Meanwhile they have been globe trotting all over the world; some running up the citizens credit cards to the tun of $80,000+. One at large member catering to the house of Assembly to the tune of over$100,000; competing against the very persons they wee hired to represent and protect.
What have we gottent?....The guys did a half finished job at the pier extension; doesn't know where the next underbudgeted $20-million is going to come from to finish the project; then throw a lavish party with fireworks
costing some $75,000, (that w didn't ask for). We would have settled for the Heritage Dancers, the Razor Blades Leon and the Hot Shots and the Stilt Dancers; costing us perhaps a 3 or 4 thousand $s.
Then they closed down the government, and walked off the job; a whole 6-months before the expiration of the
customary 4 year term.
Now they are asking us to rehire them. I guess they think we ate our lunch money. Hell no.! Who would rehire
a manager who did such a thing in your employment?.
I say, Eat um out, and Drink um out. Last time we fired them, they said that it was perhaps because thy were to advance for us.