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Apr 01, 2012 AFC Column, Features / Columnists

AFC Outreach to Region Five

A team from the Alliance for Change (AFC), including Moses Nagamootoo, Gerhard Ramsaroop and Nigel Hughes, in a recent outreach to Region 5 visited Ithaca, Woodley Park (no. 11), Bath Settlement, Hopetown and Armadale.
Problems with the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) were expressed at all of our meetings and stops.
The issues were primarily incorrect and missing contributions. At Ithaca, which was the most depressed community we visited, there was an incomplete cultural centre dating from the Burnham era, a defunct community centre and ground, and a water tank built in 1999 that never functioned.
However, the most pressing problem in Ithaca is the water supply. The water is discoloured and has an unpleasant odour. The residents claim there is no filtration system at the well, and that combined with old distribution pipes, is to blame for the condition of the water. The AFC is calling on Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) to intervene and rectify this deplorable situation immediately.
In Hopetown, there is a squatting area dating from 15 years ago. With the area not being regularised, the residents cannot access basic utilities such as electricity and water. Among the residents of the squatting area is a single mother of five who works as a sweeper/cleaner at the Hopetown Primary School and does odd jobs as well, including cleaning canals, just to try to make ends meet. The AFC is asking that this too be addressed by the relevant authorities urgently, especially in light of other more recent squatting areas in Region 5 being regularised.
Subsequent to our outreach, AFC Regional Councillor, Mr Herman Anthony organised the Regional Chairman, Mr Bisnauth and other Regional officials to visit Ithaca. The Chairman promised improved works in the village, including repairs to drains and kokers, after the Budget is passed. The AFC will hold the Regional Administration to this.
Our Councillors also visited No. 3 village where residents expressed their outrage at the state of the main canal. They claimed that the present heavily clogged state of the canal has been the norm for the past 15 years. The AFC is therefore, calling on the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) to remedy this urgently.
In keeping with the AFC’s commitment to the sweeper/cleaners in the Region, Cindy Sookdeo got a motion passed for them to be registered on the Regional payroll. We applaud the work of our Councillors and our AFC Regional Management Committee (RMC) in Region 5.
TREASON ACCUSED FREED
The Alliance For Change is happy and relieved that Major Bruce Munroe and his wife Carol are back where they belong, with their children and loved ones. The Munroes and Leonard Wharton were freed this week after Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry found there was not sufficient evidence for the three treason accused to face trial in the High Court. Bruce and Carol Munroe and Wharton were arrested and charged in December 2010.
The Alliance For Change had pressed for the Court to expedite the Preliminary Inquiry and was always of the position that the charges were trumped up.
In January the Party in a statement had urged the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to review the evidence that was presented by that time and what was to come in the future to determine the likelihood of a successful conviction and “do the right thing in the interest of justice”.
The party has also expressed concerns about the numerous delays in the PI and called on the DPP to ensure there are no more delays in the hearing and that it would not be reduced to a charade.
Justice prevailed and the Munroes and Wharton are back with their families.

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