By KHRISNA VIRGIL
Tribune Staff Reporter
kvirgil@tribunemedia.net
CENTRAL Grand Bahama MP Neko Grant yesterday criticised the Christie administration over the condition of New Providence’s main roads saying that he has never seen streets in the capital kept so poorly.
Mr Grant was responding to previous comments made by Deputy Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis who asserted in a television interview that the current condition of roads in the capital were the result of years of neglect under the Free National Movement.
He suggested that the FNM had only focused on the New Providence Road Improvement Project while neglecting the roads that were outside of the initiative.
“Well nothing could be further from the truth,” Mr Grant told reporters following the morning session of the House of Assembly.
“We paved East Street from Wulff Road to Shirley Street. We paved Bay Street from Blake Road to the Paradise Island Bridge. We paved Shirley Street from Village Road to Frederick Street. We paved Collins Avenue from Wulff Road to Shirley Street. We paved the Eastern Road from Yamacraw bend to Village Road.”
“In addition to this work done on New Providence there have been many, many miles of roads paved by Bahamix. Bahamix is a very productive unit of the Ministry of Works. In addition to that we had an ongoing road-patching programme. He need only look into the files and he would find them.
“I invite all of you to drive down Mount Royal Avenue, it’s in the heart of the prime minister’s constituency. Never during my watch was a thoroughfare allowed to deteriorate to the extent that Mount Royal Avenue, a main thoroughfare has deteriorated to. I suggest that the deputy prime minister and minister of works give some focused attention to what is really happening and give an account of his inaction.”
Mr Grant said under his watch as minister of works, Bahamix was the most productive arm in the Ministry of Works. However, he said, he now thinks it is grossly underused.
“I think it’s the lack of attention because the roads should not be in this state. I chose Mount Royal Avenue because it is the birth place of the prime minister of this country and so if Mount Royal Avenue that sits in the heart of the prime minister’s constituency is in terrible shape then what could we say about the other roads?” Mr Grant asked.
Comments
sealice 8 years, 3 months ago
next thing brave gonna say is the constituencies have used up their stipend for fixing roads.
asiseeit 8 years, 3 months ago
Brave is a finger pointing, excuse making, failure of a minister. Just look at the brand new airport road and the state it is in today not even 4 years down the road. How many lights are broken, trash everywhere, zero landscaping. No Brave this nasty state is on you my sticky finger friend. Maybe if you where doing your job instead of enriching yourself you would have a clue as to how bad it really is out there.
Abaconian 8 years, 3 months ago
I truly think Brave is the worst of the lot.
realfreethinker 8 years, 3 months ago
I support that
asiseeit 8 years, 3 months ago
The last time the streets of Nassau where so nasty was when SLOP was in power.
John 8 years, 3 months ago
Check and see who own the auto parts stores, then you will understand why the roads fall into caverns and go unrepaired. Motorists have to spend hundreds repairing brakes and suspensions. They started paving the road by Super value out West since October. Skinned up the old tar and yet the road remains unfinished. Yes we did have more than average amount of rain, but the major thoroughfares should never fall to this level of deterioration... Like some people observe, the only roads in good condition are the ones constructed under the previous government (and East Street).
TalRussell 8 years, 3 months ago
Comrades my initial thoughts were, Hummmmm…. here’s a red shirt that understands what "We The People" is all about.
MP Neko saw something that just doesn’t look right and he was willing to call out the PLP Cabinet on it.
Unfortunately for MP Neko his story of truly wanting to represent the people is not the true story of the red party, when even MP Neko would have to agree that there can no believable way on the face God's earth, for Minnis to defend a party’s Chairman’s call to block delegates from voting for the party’s leader and executives at convention.
But maybe MP Neko too thinks in bad ways some his red colleagues who are preparing roll-up to do away with the rules - the constitutional rights of red members to vote at convention - that appears to not means shi% to some at very top red party?
Minnis has but two choices open to him:
1: The Chairman must go, like today.
2: He voluntarily goes as Leader, like today.
by TalRussell
Abaconian 8 years, 3 months ago
I feel like Perry Christie could walk inside your house, slap you cross the cheek, call you a fool, and you would still vote for him.
TalRussell 8 years, 3 months ago
Comrade it is the lunacy of your influential reds, not PM Christie, who have the master plan to smack their lower level red convention delegates.
The red party has not even scratched the surface of the mutiny under way by your own MP's, Senators and Executives - ain't got's stink do anything I have, or may post.
Comrade you and I don't agree on much if anything but we do agree that not far away is the voice of Papa Hubert.
Had these people attempted this move under "Big Bad" Brad's Chairmanship, he would have come out wielding his political knife to have skinned these people - alive.
Voltaire 8 years, 3 months ago
The streets of the capital have not been clean for decades. It reflects on us as a people more than anything else. The failure of our post-independence education system and our family and community structure. But year, worse under the PLP. Its like everything they touch turns to s***.
asiseeit 8 years, 3 months ago
Here is the crux of the matter, if these failures can not even keep the island clean that depends on it's environment to attract visitors (our main business and a major revenue stream for government) what makes any sane person think they will be able to manage NHI in an honest, professional manner? These assholes can not manage to oversee the cleaning and maintenance of our roads, I have no doubt they will NOT be able to manage a complex health care scheme. We are in for a very bumpy and hard road ahead. Thanks for nothing you absolute FAILURES!
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