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Thursday, June 28, 2018

Shameful DLP Housing Distribution

We all agree as citizens and human beings with the old adage that when the rain fall it does not fall on one man housetop, and equally we should agree that when Hurricane Maria's fury of wind and rain visited in September, 2017 it did not blow out the roofs or flooded the homes of only Labour party supporters home; in fact it damaged the roofs of Red, Blue, Green, Catholic, Baptiste, Pentecostal, Rasta, Rich, Poor, in between, big houses, medium size houses and those small houses.

The most shameful and disgraceful act to be visited upon Dominicans who it is perceived to or known not be supporters of the present day DLP government all over the country are by passed, sidelined and marginalized by the Government and its henchmen operatives that are given the responsibility to distribute housing  materials. It is now clear that the distribution is based on allegiance to the Labour party and not needs based on a priority list of most damaged and vulnerable home owners.

Ericson Romain
We have witnessed Labour party supporters who have received housing materials that they did not need and resorted to selling to other citizens in need and who do not have such favor of receiving materials that was sent to each and every citizen by the international donor agencies and friendly governments. In the Roseau South constituency the blatant, bold face, in your face, what can you do, approach continues with the distribution of materials.

The known supporter, activist and recipient of sweetheart security contracts of Government buildings Ericson 'EWO' Romain is the man responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of housing materials being distributed from Bath  Estate. If this is not wrong, then there is nothing wrong in the world anymore. It is time for the Christian community leaders, which includes my Catholic Church Bishop, to speak out against this grave injustice and overt victimization in the less fortunate who do not receive, simply because they are not supporters of the government.

The trade unions, the DEF, DAIC, Youth organizations, the political parties and other professional bodies must all condemn this approach of separate development which is a modern-day apartheid, which will only breed further hate and division in our small island state which needs a caring society in which we lift each other in love and unity for the collective good of all.

I have voted for the Labour party up till 2014 and the time has come where my conscience have pushed me to put my country before a party or any one man. Dominica deserves better let us strive to do better.

Friday, June 1, 2018

3700 TARPAULIN WRAP HOMES- VERY POSSIBLE


TARPAULIN WRAP HOUSES
Since the PM declared that he is about to build 3700 houses, pictures of the banana shed/copra houses that are being built by the government have surfaced and now people have moved from doubtfulness to optimism. The Prime Minister just needed to explain that the 3700 houses would be 8 x8 villas similar to the ones being built in Grandbay with copra house type architecture- In stark contrast to the Renneth Style Architecture that we see at the Savanne Paille villas.

MiTC has also been monitoring some houses that are being built by government handlers with the assistance of the Samaritan Purse. The Samaritan purse is an international evangelical Christian disaster relief organization. The volunteers from the Samaritan Purse are supposedly helping with the construction of houses particularly in the North of the island however the government and its handpicked DLP operatives are leading the operation with the distribution and coordination of the resources (material and Labor) and as expected the DLP gang decides who gets the assistance.

As always anything handled by Skerrit and his goons is based on electioneering tactics and as such things always turn out to be upside down, inside out and back to front. People are now asking why the government is building so many “Tarpaulin Homes”. The name Tarpaulin Homes comes from the fact that the government and its operatives are rushing to set up building frames and then the people are given tarpaulins to wrap around the building frames. The buildings are left unfinished and the often jobless occupants are left to figure out how they are going to provide a somewhat resilient or safe enclosure to their Tarpaulin Houses.

In keeping with the Skerrit motive of keeping the people bamboozled and happy with less than mediocrity, the idea of building so many unfinished Tarpaulin Wrapped Houses helps create the false perception that the Skerrit government cares but as we all know it, Mr. Skerrit and his bushwhackers only care about greed, power and the art of keeping the people dependent and rashly loyal to Skerrit.

The rush to erect so many “Tarpaulin Homes” has also resulted in the unfair distribution of these half-finished houses. Friends and supporters of the Dominica Labor Party are receiving multiple unfinished units and in some instances are using the unfinished units to set up rum shops. There are cases where  Laborites who either did not own a house before Maria or did not have structural damages to their houses are desperately finding plots just to have the Tarpaulin Home foundation built. While this is happening people who are truly in need of building material are not receiving the material from the government. The perpetuation of the “Some Eating All “ behavior e that has been nurtured and promoted by the Roosevelt Skerrit regime. 

We were also disturbed by the fact that the entire Tarpaulin Home building process is conducted in a desultory manner and seemingly without proper intervention by the Physical Planning Department. It appears that the “Tarpaulin Homes” are being configured on a “one size fit all “basis. A family of 6 or 8 gets the same size structure as a single or two person family. We also notice that the red toilet initiative is no longer important as these Tarpaulin Homes are erected without sanitary facilities. What we may be witnessing here is the making of another “City Soleile “as seen in Haiti.

While many are wondering whether it is possible to erect 3700 houses particularly before the election, people have been receiving standard partially completed  building frames with roofs and tarpaulin wrap façades. In fact a section of the Village of Bense is now named “ Samaritan Purse” because of the number of unfinished “Tarpaulin Homes” that have been erected by the Skerrit regime.

Who knows what the PM was thinking when he promised 3700 houses? Maybe an island with 3700 constructed Tarpaulin type houses or Samaritan Purse type communities could indeed become the first ever resilient country
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