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Plea for roads and water supply in Diamond Scheme
Dear Editor,
It took years of hard work and renting houses, but I was able to acquire a very good plot of land in the middle class community of Diamond after waiting years applying for a house lot. Over the years the small number of ‘pioneers’ (using Minister Keith Scott’s word), built their homes with very little basic facilities such as roads and water. We heard as more persons build, they facilities will come and add the environment. It has been over a decade for some of us and we still do not have proper roads, proper water supply and adequate street lights in this so call biggest housing development.
Concerns were raised over the years on several occasions to every Minister of Housing and NDC chairman only to hear it will soon happen. We heard the same with the new government and waited patiently but it seems as if only squatting areas are being taken care of. This is not a knock on the residents of from squatting areas, but it seems that if we rename of community a squatting area we might finally get attention.
Squatting is illegal in this country and the thousands of residents in Diamond were abiding by the law and spend millions on purchasing a land the correct way yet we are forced to live worse than persons who decided to take the law into their hands and squatted. Sophia and Angoy Avenue residents will enter into a new year with proper roads and street lights, while residents who gave the country’s treasury billions of dollars from land acquired the correct way will enter into the new year as if they are squatting for more than ten years.
Frustrated Resident (name supplied)
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