The Minister of Works and Urban Development has a house on Cat Island where we are proud to have an extensive Department of Public Works with numerous sub departments. (More departments than sucessful projects.)
The Department of A Project Well Done 1.. Seawall along Queens Highway protecting a partially washed out roadway.
The Department of Non Functional Projects 1. Unoccupied Orange Creek Medical Clinic ( Government experts didn't ask the nurses for feedback.) 2. Non functional Bennets Harbour Dock & Never Started Entrance Channel. (If the dock don' work why waste the money on an entrance?) 3. Old Bight Sports Field funded by Government but "the money ran out" 4. High (or any) speed DSL internet access. 5. Reliable telephone landlines (this summer, Customs was without telephone or internet for (was it) three weeks.
The Department of Projects of Interest to Cat Islanders 1. Filling the minefield of potholes up and down Queen's Highway 2. Repair of the seriously washed out 20 meter section of Smith's Bay Dock. 3. Repair of the washed out sections of road in Orange Creek 4. Maintenance of Government farm access roads. 5. Open and staff the Medical Clinic in Baintown.( close to the proposed PGA village.)
The Department of Promised Projects 1. Resurfacing of Arthurstown Airport Runway. 2. Proposed New Bight Airport and runway extention. ( dependant on foreign funding?) 3. Paving or even maintaining road to Shanna Village that was "paved" by Government money in the 80's but is still dirt. (20 private homes and two boutique hotels )
The Department of Sucessful Volonteer Local Initiative 1. Arthurstown World Class Playground
It is a political truism that it is more palatable to make new promises rather than follow up on and complete old commitments.
Why do we need a shiny new airport and runway when the rest of the island has fourth world roads and infrastructure? (We are getting good at car slalom but not everyone survives.) The roads of Zimbabwe are better than ours.
Does the New Bight Airport project really depend on waiting for the experts to finish their drawings and specifications Or Is the Government waiting for the PGA village people to fund the construction without a signed agreement to pay back the money? ( I'm just asking.)
Catislandcomments says...
The Minister of Works and Urban Development has a house on Cat Island where we are proud to have an extensive Department of Public Works with numerous sub departments. (More departments than sucessful projects.)
The Department of A Project Well Done
1.. Seawall along Queens Highway protecting a partially washed out roadway.
The Department of Non Functional Projects
1. Unoccupied Orange Creek Medical Clinic ( Government experts didn't ask the nurses for feedback.)
2. Non functional Bennets Harbour Dock & Never Started Entrance Channel. (If the dock don' work why waste the money on an entrance?)
3. Old Bight Sports Field funded by Government but "the money ran out"
4. High (or any) speed DSL internet access.
5. Reliable telephone landlines (this summer, Customs was without telephone or internet for (was it) three weeks.
The Department of Projects of Interest to Cat Islanders
1. Filling the minefield of potholes up and down Queen's Highway
2. Repair of the seriously washed out 20 meter section of Smith's Bay Dock.
3. Repair of the washed out sections of road in Orange Creek
4. Maintenance of Government farm access roads.
5. Open and staff the Medical Clinic in Baintown.( close to the proposed PGA village.)
The Department of Promised Projects
1. Resurfacing of Arthurstown Airport Runway.
2. Proposed New Bight Airport and runway extention. ( dependant on foreign funding?)
3. Paving or even maintaining road to Shanna Village that was "paved" by Government money in the 80's but is still dirt. (20 private homes and two boutique hotels )
The Department of Sucessful Volonteer Local Initiative
1. Arthurstown World Class Playground
It is a political truism that it is more palatable to make new promises rather than follow up on and complete old commitments.
Why do we need a shiny new airport and runway when the rest of the island has fourth world roads and infrastructure? (We are getting good at car slalom but not everyone survives.) The roads of Zimbabwe are better than ours.
Does the New Bight Airport project really depend on waiting for the experts to finish their drawings and specifications
Or
Is the Government waiting for the PGA village people to fund the construction without a signed agreement to pay back the money? ( I'm just asking.)
Respectfully,
El Gato
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