Singles have rights, too

THE EDITOR: We deliver because we care! Singles, this is your wake up call! It was just a campaign slogan. Expect no deliveries because they don’t really care (at least for persons who are single). Insignificant is the fact that thousands of single persons went on the campaign trail. Also insignificant is the fact that thousands of single persons voted in favour of the party in governance and hundreds worked on election day. What is significant is that “none” if few will be considered when houses will be distributed.

Families will be given precedence. Fair is fair and precedence should be given in relation to when one’s application was submitted that is the democratic way and I think this is still a democracy. Some single persons applied since early last year (I am one) and were booted out by persons who applied much later. Is it that single persons don’t need housing? Do they exist in space? Maybe the refurbishment of the Brian Lara and Harris Promenades is to facilitate the single. Does life compel each individual to marriage or to have a family at any cost? As a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago married, attached or single, each has a right to a home and to be comfortable in the same. I don’t want to believe that there was no vision to the needs of the single or yet that there was deception on the part of the powers that be today. Single people will not sit quiet, we will be heard because forged from the love of liberty it is our right. For every creed (single, married or otherwise) must find an equal place.

ERICA P GEORGE
San Fernando