Backbenchers resume 'walk-throughs'; Visit Second District
Districts visited in November last year were the Fifth District, represented by Hon Delores Christopher, and the Sixth District, represented by Hon Alvera Maduro-Caines.
The Backbenchers resumed their visits yesterday, February 22, 2018 with a walk-through in Cane Garden Bay in the Second District, represented by Hon Melvin M. Turnbull.
Apart from Hon Turnbull, the Backbenchers present were Hon Maduro-Caines, Eighth District Representative and Junior Minister for Tourism Hon Marlon A. Penn and Ninth District Representative Hon Hubert R. O’Neal.
“We resumed the Backbenchers walk-through that we did a couple of months ago in the Districts, just to support each other and share some of the things we have been speaking about privately and mentioning in Caucus and other forums,” Hon Turnbull told our newsroom today, February 23, 2018.
He added that the Backbenchers thought it was important to continue the visits “as Backbenchers and as a Government, outside of the Ministers, that we could see what each other’s major issues are and hear from people in the community what their issues are so that, when I agitate for them in Caucus and bring them up in that forum, my team from the Backbench would have an idea what is going on because the Ministers have their Ministerial duties as well but I think their strength is in the numbers, in terms of what we want to do.
The Backbenchers who visited the Second District on February 22, 2018 were, from left, Eighth District Representative and Junior Minister for Tourism Hon Marlon A. Penn, Fifth District Representative Hon Alvera Maduro-Caines and Ninth District Representative Hon Hubert R. O’Neal. Photo: VINO/File
Concerns
Now that the main road is being paved in Cane Garden Bay and then that project will move to Brewers Bay, the main concerns, according to Hon Turnbull, came from the business owners in Cane Garden Bay, and were centered around the restoration of the public bathrooms and the new sewerage project and treatment plant to be built this year.
“And how we get things rolling again, in terms of how we get persons coming again to the community from the cruise lines.”
Hon Turnbull also shared that he recently had a meeting with the Ministry of Communications and Works and all the other Ministry Representatives to discuss what needs to be done for those tourist destination areas like Jost van Dyke, Brewers Bay and Cane Garden Bay “as we get ready for this upcoming cruise season.”
The walk-through in Cane Garden Bay covered the area between the bridge near to Hodge’s Gas Station to the bridge to where the Wedding Bar once stood. “It was good for the team to be with me and they heard some of the concerns, including about the school, sewage, bathrooms, the beach and to ensure that we are regulating the things we need to regulate now that we have this clean slate.”
The Backbenchers will now head to the Eighth District next week and the Ninth District the following week.
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