A RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT would ensure that each low-income family can afford homes, says Democratic Labour Party (DLP) candidate for St James South, Donville Inniss as he canvassed the constituency.
“Haynesville is considered the epitome of low-income in St James South, which is comprised of housing stock of National Housing units,” he said yesterday.
“There is a need for assistance to those who want to purchase their own National Housing Corporation (NHC) units. The reality is that the income levels of individuals in those units do not generally allow for them to purchase these units,” he explained.
The people in Haynesville, he said, would not qualify for even what NHC calls “affordable housing” in its new residential developments, and so many would have to remain in the units they are living in.
“So as a responsible Government, we will have to put systems in place to ensure that each individual has established himself/herself in the community, and is in position to own the roof over their heads,” he said.
He also called for education and training programmes to be brought into the Haynesville community, noting that even though it was surrounded by Melbourne cricket field and the Holders Hill playing field, these were only sporting facilities without any organised activities.
“The physical club houses are not designed to provide training facilities for residents,” Inniss said
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December 31, 2007 at 10:39 pm
BAJANS BEWARE!
Illegal Immigrants Poem
I cross ocean, poor and broke.
Take bus, see employment folk.
Nice man treat me good in there.
Say I need to see welfare.
Welfare say, ‘You come no more,
we send cash right to your door.’
Welfare checks – they make you wealthy!
Free Insurance – it keep you healthy!
By and by, I get plenty money.
Thanks to you, you BAJAN dummy!
Write to friends in motherland.
Tell them ‘come fast as you can.’
They come in turbans and Ford truc ks,
And buy big house with welfare bucks!
They come here, we live togeth er.
More welfare checks, it gets better!
Fourteen families, they moving in,
but neighbor’s patience wearing thin.
Finally, BAJAN guy moves away.
Now I buy his house,then I say,
‘Find more immigrants for house to rent.’
And in the yard I put a tent.
Everything is very good,
and soon we own the neighborhood.
We have hobby, it’s called breeding.
Welfare pay for baby feeding.
Kids need dentist? Wives need pills?
We get free! We got no bills!
BAJANS crazy!
They work all year, to keep the welfare running here.
We think Barbados A. darn good place.
Too darn good for Bajan race!
If they no like us, they can scram.
January 1, 2008 at 3:42 am
DLP
What are you going to do about all these illegals in this country.
They must be made to leave as soon as you get in.
They are having a negative effect on the social fabric of this country.
We are looking to you for leadership and action – like Baldwin Spencer of Antigua – think of country first.
January 10, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I am appalled to here the leaders of Barbados constantly calling for measures to help the poor. I must admit that they are poor people in Barbados in need of assistance but they are also the voluntary poor, those that prefer to hold their hand out than to get up and work. What about the middle class who is looking out for us?
I am hoping that someone would be able to answer this question with the economy as bad as it is, DLP says, where are you going to get the money to create a fund of $40 million, give persons 500 houses in 500 days, reduce the VAT, increase NIS, WHERE?
On the issue of VAT how would we be able to access these concessions on building material?
These are great ideas but I would really like to know before 15th January, 2008. I would be more likely to vote then.