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No structures in Pine Basin removed, says ministry
Article by May 15, 2021
The Ministry of Transport and Works (MTW) has flatly refuted allegations that its employees have been uprooting housing materials and fruit trees on land occupied by a Rastafari family in the Pine Basin, St Michael.
In a release on Friday, the ministry revealed that they were clearing a watercourse directly behind the ministry’s headquarters as part of the Government’s flood mitigation programme over the last two weeks.
The press release said that it was necessary to remove “trees and debris” that were “obstructing the path of equipment” as they carried out the work from the ABC Highway behind the water authority headquarters, the Barbados Licensing Authority, behind the ministry’s headquarters and into the nearby playing field.
We must state upfront we do not condone illegal squatting. But we understand how and why people, ofttimes encouraged by politicians, find themselves in this precarious situation.Successive governments have failed to provide low-income housing at the same pace as the demand. While we have a history of living in extended families, the feeling of independence becomes crucial especially as our citizenry seek to build their own families.Earlier this year during the Estimates debate, former Minister of Housing George Payne accused his Government of moving away from its primary role of providing housing for the poor.
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Government backbencher Trevor Prescod chided the Barbados Labour Party administrations for their treatment meted out to late MP Joseph Edghill over his 14 years as a parliamentarian.
In his tribute to the late MP in the House of Assembly on Tuesday, Prescod claimed Edghill was treated like an outsider who was not accepted into the inner circles of the party, and suffered the frustration over continuous failure on the part of Government to respond to his requests to have things done in his constituency.
Prescod said that frustration on the part of the Christ Church West MP, with whom he had a very close friendship, was often revealed by Edghill in tears and open confrontations with other MPs outside the Chamber at the end of parliamentary sessions.
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