Hudson Griffith wants to know where is the information on homes damaged in St John by Tropical Storm Tomas last October.
The Barbados Labour Party (BLP) St John by-election hopeful said that while Attorney-General and Minister of Home Affairs Adriel Brathwaite provided information on other parishes, he had not given any on St John.
Griffith was speaking during the BLP meeting at College Savannah last Friday night and he listed several districts, including Codrington Road, Pool, Edgecliff and Gall Hill, where homes were in need of repairs.
“I want Mara Thompson to defend the Democratic Labour Party but she can’t . . . . The people in St John have to wake up after 52 years and say this foolishness has to stop . . . representation is needed,” said Griffith.
He said Thompson’s claimed sympathy for the residents could not repair the roads, feed residents or help with the increase in VAT. However, the money used by DLP for a concert yesterday [Saturday] could have been used for home and road repairs and creating jobs in St John, Griffith told the crowd. He noted that St John has had two prime ministers and yet, the parish was not getting its due and constituents continued to vote for the DLP.
He said because of his agitation work was supposed to resume on the abandoned polyclinic but queried how this could happen on March 15 as Government promised when the project would involve Town Planning approval and funds allocated from the Treasury.
The first-time candidate also turned his attention to the problem of muddy water from the Bowmanston Pumping Station stating that a $300 000 filtration plan had been put out to tender but the tenders had disappeared.
Instead, said Griffith, there was another $4 million capital works programme being favoured. He suggested that the latter solution would eventually lead to another increase in water rates. (AC)
