The slow pace of the rebuilding in Union Island after the devastation caused by Hurricane Beryl on July 1 is not by accident, says East Kingstown MP, Fitz Bramble.
“… you can call me a conspiracy theorist or whatever, but you see what’s happening in Union Island with regards to the slow pace of rebuilding and recovering, that is not by accident. Believe you me that is not by accident,” Bramble said on Tuesday.
“… my assessment, my suspicion, is that this has to do with the manipulation of voters, moving people in between constituencies,” said Bramble, who is a member of the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP).
He said that the hurricane, which damaged or destroyed 90% of buildings in the Southern Grenadines, gave the government a chance to do what it “probably was planning all along but couldn’t find the opportunity so to do…
“And we can’t sit down and be naïve and think that this is not possible,” he said on New Times, the NDP daytime show on NICE Radio,
Bramble was speaking on an edition of the programme on which his colleague, Southern Grenadines MP Terrance Ollivierre accused the government of ignoring the rebuilding of the schools in Union Island.
At the same time, he said the government had pushed ahead in readying a temporary campus at Arnos Vale to house the secondary and two primary schools from Union Island.
“… you can’t tell me, you could have gotten so much work done so quickly … at the old Teachers College, to the extent where you could accommodate the students. So why you couldn’t do the same thing down in Union Island?” Bramble said.
Ollivierre repeated his view that the work in Arnos Vale to accommodate the students should have been done on the schools in Union Island to get them ready for the new school year.
“And when this crisis is over, that whatever you built in Union Island could have been there, and people would find … means to use it,” Ollivierre said.
“But, I also want to put this into the equation to show you that work in Union Island seems to be deliberately slow.”
I believe everything you said, Mr. Bramble. I believe Ralph Gonsalves is a 100% hardened marxist communist; and he want to stay in power forever while wrecking the country in the process. Poor SVG, look and see, whatever you do you will still loose the election.
Mr Bramble kindly do the maths. Get a headcount on the workers tackling each build. Its not hard to calculate a rough guide as to how far each build should have progressed to. It may also be possible that the workers are doing the deliberate slow work trick. Also if materials run out this could cause work to stop. This means they get paid for a longer time. I understand the workers are getting paid on a daily basis so this is a possibility. The government should be project managing the situation and should know roughly where each build should have progressed to for a given schedule. The project managers have projected schedules and must know where delays are being encountered. If they don’t have project managers involved then there is already something wrong in the procedures and practises being employed. They are rebuilding islands. This is not a breadfruit mentality task. It shouldn’t surprise us if there was some sort of political game going on with an underhanded motive behind it. We know whatever is done will be used for political gain. Don’t be afraid to speak out.
Also the people’s newspaper has turned into a scared small boy who has been threatened by the bigger powers and is sh-tin his pants.