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Long Look youths cry for help
“He from here but he ain’t showing that he from here, we on our own, straight talk,” said a young man
Valiant efforts were made yesterday March 25, 2014 to contact Dr Hon Pickering but these proved futile.
“You see this?” asked one youth referring to a sewer. “Is years it like this; they put it saying it was temporary now it’s years and nothing being done and people, children getting sick and this is the source,” said the young man who chose to use the name The CEO Leonard only.
Leonard, supported by several others, expressed grave concern about the state of the sewer lines as they said they were forced to clean one of the lines as it was beyond what they could bear. The lines are in the heart of the Long Look area.
Adding fury to fire, one of the lines, as it is extensively blocked, drains its contents onto the road and has formed a non-stop stream that runs past the entrance of the little play park which is frequented by children.
“The children getting sick, for them to get into the park that is what they have to walk through and children are children you cannot stop that,” said Leonard.
One sewer line sits at the direct entrance of a home which has a fast food shop to the front while the other is at a main intersection. “We stop asking him (Hon Pickering) for anything because he has no time with us here anymore,” said one aggrieved youth.
“Now we decided to clean that one but they must pay us because we are not cleaning the other ones for nothing either,” claimed one who said that he is confident that the government with proper lobbying from Dr Hon Pickering can see them being given a small stipend to maintain the lines until the major project comes on stream.
“We need work, they putting money in the big boys pockets who not doing the jobs well, we are from here and we want the best for our community; we will fix it right.”
The men admitted that in times past when contacted, Perline Scatliffe-Leonard who has been confirmed to the post of Director of the Water and Sewerage Department (W&SD), sent workers on several occasions to address the problem. “They come do a little thing and they go and before they reach back to town the problem back. But she (Scatliffe-Leonard) cooperates but we lost contact, we not getting her anymore,” noted one man.
They said that while some were more fortunate to have an education that puts them off the bread line, the others for reasons too many to mention that do not have an education background still deserve a chance at earning a living.
“We willing to work but we just not getting anything to do; we want to work but we don’t have the papers, we ain’t got the books head but we can work… is less crime and violence like that,” insisted one.
The men said that the issue of the sewer line is just but one problem plaguing the Long Look Community and that they are tired of running after the people who are responsible for ensuring those are addressed.
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51 Responses to “Long Look youths cry for help”
This is an outright disgrace to we the people. P.......g living in this area and he act as though we are not his family. He has proper sewerage, running water and he filled the potholes near his house. Other than that. why do you all keep voting him in??????????? He may be a son of the soil but he acting like an ex-pat and we all know they don't give a rats a.. about us.