PM hears problems ever more in Enterprise

“Only shooting down here,” the innocent little girl shouted as the Prime Minister passed by her unpainted house. PM Patrick Manning came face to face with the frustrations people in Enterprise, Chaguanas, were having as a result of high levels of crime and poor infrastructure. “One standpipe for 500 people! No proper drainage! Yuh know how long they promise we that (proper drainage), 10 years they promise we that. What going on? They ain’t giving we no work. Then all yuh raising the food, all yuh raising everything. All yuh seeing in the back here is only maskman (bandits), yuh can’t come out here in peace...Early, early children have to go inside. A maskman shoot a youthman right there, no (police) investigation,” Clevon Clark, a resident stated angrily.

“No work, no work,” his colleague chanted.  He said he was in jail for nine years and he didn’t want to return. “Too much violence. Is the worse thing not doing nothing (not working). Fellas here have education but they using their brain for crime, because they come out of school with five, six subjects but they getting no job,” he added. As people chimed in shouting out their various complaints, Manning said he was hearing them. Another groaned that “ministers money was raising” while poor people money wasn’t. “And I have real children,” he said. “We need to get a close-by Police Post with the high crime...it is unsafe.

When the rains fall, a lot of people suffering from the flooding,” one woman, Sherry Ann Esahack complained. “We tired asking, look at the condition of the road,” another complained. Manning said because the whole development was unplanned, Government needed to design a whole plan for the area. “It would take time, but that is what we intend to do,” he said, adding that Government would see what temporary arrangements could be put in place.