by Linda Straker
- Nation Builders initiative to eliminate bureaucratic hindrance of community projects
- Debate seeks to repeal section of Nawasa Act prohibiting lien against premises with unpaid debt
- Amendment to ensure every residential property has indoor plumbing by year 2027
Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said that his administration would not be assisting homeowners without including indoor plumbing.
“This administration doesn’t intend to embark on home repairs or build homes that do not have bathrooms and toilets. We will not be building homes that do not have bathrooms and toilets because we will be contributing to the very problem that we are trying to eliminate,” he told a sitting of the Lower House of Parliament on 28 November.
Mitchell was at the time contributing to the debate which sought to repeal the section of the National Water and Sewage Authority Act that will prohibit the main water distributor from placing a lien against premises with unpaid debt. He explained that the main aim of legislation amendment is to ensure that every residential property has indoor plumbing by 2027.
“There is still a large number of Grenadians that struggle with having access to quality water and numerous homes in the country continue to rely on outside pit toilets,” said Tevin Andrews, Member of Parliament for Carriacou and Petite Martinique.
Andrews explained the Bill seeks to consider an initiative launched by the Government called “Nation Builders”. Launched earlier this year, Nation Builders is an initiative that seeks to eliminate the bureaucratic handlings that often hinder the implementation of community projects and instead encourage citizen active involvement in the development of our beloved country.
@ J you’re really misinformed, can’t believe you read the article and make such foolish and irrelevant remarks. There have been some may houses the the previous administration built without bathrooms and toilets’. Furthermore in some cases electricity and water was not even installed in the homes and funny enough these were POOR PEOPLE. As a 23 year old youth, I commend the government on this initiative, if we helping the nation’s not so fortunate, then at least provide them with all the necessary installments and requirements and not ‘some some’ coming towards each election.
I think you grenadians you citizens of Grenada need to look at what is right and wrong just remember that all your ministers in government are getting big very big pay rises with the salaries they earn is over to some of them are owning over two hundred thousand dollars plus expenses but what other poor getting nothing so just remember that
I love your country it’s a beautiful country people are very nice as I said but it needs help from your government to help the poor everybody’s human everybody’s got rights to live and have necessary basics in their homes help to rebuild their lives after 2004 you earn millions and millions of dollars from selling passports etc put that money to walls help in the poor helping people whose houses are still built in a way that when they got knocked down in 2004 they it’s just temporary there’d be like that for the 20 years help these people ministers go around your areas and have a look and see people who need help so the pocketing the money and putting it into buying your own homes and your or building a home for your mother and having security guarding his mother’s house there’s a lot of things that you grenadians don’t really know about what politicians are like but I’ll tell you this you’ve got a beautiful country the people are nice and I know because I know someone very deeply that I care about who’s in this particular and I feel your government needs to help a lot more travelling around the world first class and staying in first class hotels and stops thinking about themselves think about their citizens properly proper health care proper pensions proper help free just like other countries around the world you’re not a poor country help the poor you need help help them
And you think about it all governments ministers etc including him getting a nice pay rise so you think about it who’s paying for this when he travels to Dubai always first class first class hotels everything is all first class the taxpayer is paying for all this so what I’m at the taxpayers money pay for people who needs toilets and water and build their homes back up again because of 2004 the hurricane Ivan I know somebody who’s house is still down and built up rough no help for them all he does and your government pocket the money for themselves getting paid rises and the poor people who left on the street I say that’s not fair think about your poor people and your prime minister keep slagging off st Lucia UK and everywhere else and he goes swelling around all over the world to these big meetings staying in first class first class on the plane first class in hotels and who’s paying for it you are glad I don’t live in your country these that’s the way your prime minister’s your governments are running it think about the poor people for a change not the rich so people need plumbing in their homes they have the right and it’s a human right to have that just like the lies he’s told you and the last few days about signing this big treaty so just remember this young man you voting him in in my country we get help and the poor does get help not fantastically but we still get help look at your healthcare look at your pensions and all he’s worried about is getting millions of dollars from passports and everything else from the rich and selling it to countries that shouldn’t be on the list and everything goes up and who suffering the poor so my message is to your government to help the poor don’t rely on charities help out the poor people built their homes help them out instead of pocketing your money going on first class trips all over the world as much as my country is not brilliant but they help the poor in some way or form so just remember that everybody has a human right to live and have basic acidities like water plumbing proper pensions proper healthcare for free
Help the poor prime minister
Well if people needs help your government should help with the poor just remember 2004 I know someone who’s house nobody wanted to help and it’s still down your governments don’t like poor people in other countries you get help but it seems to me the your government don’t care about the poor people they just want to pocket the money themselves and just look at all the money that getting loans from other countries to sort this all out whereas the money going to just remember that maybe somehows is having got water or toilets but the government should help the poor as I said I know someone who’s house was not down 2004 and it still no one’s helping them another countries governments help your country is not a poor country it’s middle-class because it’s got all the rich and your government just want rich people he’s got money in their country but they don’t think about the poor people who need free health care what is Central water is Central is a necessary alley once is to fly around the world getting loans and pocket it in himself all that money selling sits and citizenships passports millions of dollars where’s it all going to help the poor first not the rich
The cost involves not just the toilet, bowls etc but the installation of a proper drainfield otherwise it’s pointless just dumping the waste in a pit. It’s expensive and time consuming even with machinery
The headline and the content of the article seem to be at odds. There is a difference between not building new houses without indoor plumbing and assisting existing homeowners who do not have indoor plumbing. Truly sloppy journalism.