NAR leader: Reclaim your communities

If people felt truly involved in Local Government, they would not burn tyres to block roads in frustration at problems in their community, said NAR leader Lennox Sankersingh addressing a NAR political rally at the Beetham Estate on Tuesday night.

Sankersingh said: “The people have become alienated from the Local Government process. If people don’t understand how they fit into the process of Local Government, then when something goes wrong they will block a road or burn tyres. If you know where you fit in, how you participate, how decisions are made, when your road will be fixed (even if it is in five years’ time), you would not have to burn tyres.” Saying the NAR believed Local Government must be based on people, he said: “Development is not just about big buildings and highways but must be based on people. If not, then you could spend all the money in the world like the PNM is doing but there will be more crime and more poverty and so on. “Local government is the first step, the foundation of development for the involvement of all people in the decision-making process. We are reminding people that change is in your hands. On July 14, you have the opportunity to move this society forward, so vote NAR.”

Sankersingh also lamented that the parents of thousands of children in this country did not know where their next meal was coming from. Saying that 85 out of every 100 students in secondary school failed to get a full certificate of passes, he said: “The system is not working to bring out the best in our society. As a society, we must find solutions to our problems and the first step to this is putting people into office who you feel could do better. Change the administrators.”