EDITOR, The Tribune.
Please print this open letter to:
The Hon Philip “Brave” Davis, MP
Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Works & Urban Renewal
John F Kennedy Drive
Nassau, Bahamas
Re: Pinewood Gardens.
Dear Sir,
God’s peace to you. I feel compelled to write to you to request that you use your powers and do not allow another Pinewood Gardens to be built anywhere in the Bahamas.
Pinewood Gardens is “a structured evil” and in a more progressive society would never have taken place.
While it is true that the recent rain floods were unprecedented – one inch of rain in Pinewood causes havoc.
The poor, the marginalised and the least in our midst must continue to pay for these poorly built homes that ought never been allowed to be built in such swampy areas.
And as usual these struggling Bahamians have no recourse.
Successive governments, especially during election times, have promised to assist these residents, but few have truly delivered.
The developers of this area ought to have taken better care of where they were building and the needed engineering infrastructure was needed to avoid this place becoming a nightmare for struggling residents.
Most times we talk about crime we sometimes forget to ask – “whose crime are we talking about?”.
BISHOP SIMEON B HALL
Nassau,
May 23, 2013.
Comments
ThisIsOurs 11 years, 5 months ago
Ahah! A sensible and truthful statement. But a few months too late, the chickens are already roosting.
We castigate young boys who grab a $200 chain or steal a $300 cellphone. But at the same time we have very nicely groomed men in expensive suits who show up on our tvs everyday to tell us how much they care about us. Behind our backs they are doling out millions to their friends, business partners and campaign workers. Crime is crime. A professional firm was just paid 1 mil dollars the other day for work that if they were truly professionals, they would have written a cheque to the tax payers returning 3/4.
What happened to these people in pineward gardens is another true crime. Who could not have foreseen the hazards...
jackbnimble 11 years, 5 months ago
I question if there is any recourse in law against the developer of the subdivision who has gotten rich off the backs of these poor Bahamians who did not know any better.
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