Fmr. 4th District Rep. “saddened” by lack of landscaping effort in RT
Dr. Scatliffe was also making reference to the landscaping at Fish Lock Road, across from the High Court, which seems to have been abandoned since he lost his 4th District seat to the incumbent Hon. Mark Vanterpool, the Minister for Communications and Works, at the November 2011 election.
The then Fourth District representative had at one time told Virgin Islands News Online that it was costly to acquire the plants and maintain it but he had pursued the project, nevertheless, because the public had called for the beautification of Road Town and the landscaping was part of the effort to achieve that.
The entire beautification project for Road Town, Dr. Scatliffe had pointed out then, was in the vicinity of 40 thousand dollars and this had amounted to so much because of theft and vandalism of plants.
“The whole thing has been abandoned. I am very saddened by it that all that resources and effort went into addressing the beautification of the District and elections came and you know what happened and there was no continuation of the programme,” Dr. Scatliffe lamented in an invited comment.
Dr. Scatliffe also did not want to speculate whether it was a political and deliberate effort to abandon the project. “All I can say is that I am no longer there so am no longer behind the efforts so I heard that they now have a City Manager so I don’t know if that would be an interest if the new City Manager…I am very saddened by it but that is how the dice rolls…”
Efforts to contact the City Manager, Janice Braithwaite-Edwards, were unsuccessful up to press time.
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18 Responses to “Fmr. 4th District Rep. “saddened” by lack of landscaping effort in RT”
I for one would have a lot more respect for him and might actually give him a chance if he runs for next election.
But to sit back and whine, without doing anything himself to fix the issue, only makes me reject him even more.
Right now Mark is letting me down too but if I had to choose again, I would choose him over Vincent. Vincent got to show me more effort!