Gov't building sidewalk for sheep & cows– Mr McLloyd Walters
The most recent observation came from Mr McLloyd Walters, one citizen who has chosen to demonstrate his democratic right to freedom of speech without fear or favour. He was at the time a guest on The Vigilate Dialogue with Shaina M. Smith’ last Thursday December 12, 2013 on CBN Channel 51.
Among the many failures to set priorities right, Mr Walters pointed to the construction of the Georgie Hill Road in Greenland. “In that particular area, that particular stretch, there aren’t any houses. There isn’t any activity or anything on that road.” He added that government has expended a lot of money on the road, “…much more than they needed to spend and now they are actually putting a sidewalk on to that road,” he highlighted.
Mr Walters questioned the reasoning behind the construction of the sidewalk along the road as opposed to one being constructed where the need is graver. “..but we in the community, the children in the community don’t have a sidewalk to walk on between Willard Wheatley School and say Long Swamp along the main highway,” he pointed out.
He opined that the present sidewalk being constructed is more likely to be of benefit to the sheep and cows to use while the children of the community continues to be at risk of traffic.
Quoting a famous writer, Walter noted the action of the government’s manner of spending as carelessness. “We must have no carelessness in our dealing with public property or the expenditure of public money… and I think that is a lot of carelessness, I think that is too much carelessness….we need to prioritise.”
According to Mr Walters, in matters of such, citizens need to show more concern. Walters’ concern was supported by the host of the show Ms Smith who said that it is the role of the citizenry to highlight things of priority to the government whose job it is to have the wishes of the people granted.
“The priority should come from the people, we determine that these are the things that are important to us and we communicate that to our representatives then these are the things we should be seeing in terms of decisions being made and where money is spent and put forward that is beneficial to majority,” Ms Smith stated.
According to Walters, the government is not taking into enough consideration things of interest of the greater community.
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18 Responses to “Gov't building sidewalk for sheep & cows– Mr McLloyd Walters”
When he was getting the contract to do the road he did not know that nobody live in that area, so with all the houses and people who utilized that road for years bad or good. How can Mr. Walters call them nobody. My people who travels to lambert be honest with your self and tell me who lives at georgie hill dogs and cats. Mclloyd go sit down.
Do not shoot the messenger ! If this government would see to it that a sidewalk is built for the children to walk on, if this government would build sidewalks along the streets from East End to Fat Hogs Bay, if this government would build a drain to channel the water coming off Nottingham Estate so that it does not flow over the road destroying it in the process, then I would have nothing but praise. Until then, we must bring to their attention where they need to improve. I do not object to the sidewalk, what I object to is the fact that there is a sidewalk on that road but NONE on the roads that THE MAJORITY of residents walk on !