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Chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party on Hurricane Relief Concerns
Sep 29, 2019 - 6:45:18 PM

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Statement from the Chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party

On Hurricane Relief Concerns

For Immediate Relief

29 September 2019

The Prime Minister can fly off to New York, party with the rich and famous, speak to the world audience and the Secretary General of the United Nations, but is unable to speak to the Leader of the Opposition in The Bahamas. Since he is intent on ignoring the PLP and the Leader of the Opposition, we make public the following national issues:

The people of Moore’s Island feel abandoned by the FNM government. They have no running water. They complain of lack of a government presence since the storm.

Yesterday the water system in Sandy Point, Abaco failed because the generator in the well field malfunctioned.

The people there were promised right after the storm that since damage was minimal in South Abaco, electricity would have been restored to South Abaco shortly thereafter.  Reports are that work has not started on putting the poles up to restore the power. Yesterday people were without water for the whole day.  No report has come to us about its restoration.
 
The people in the Abaco Cays complain that the security situation is deteriorating there. There is little indication of a government presence. There are reports of marauding gangs, occupying people’s homes and vandalizing and stealing private property throughout the island of Abaco. There is no indication of a government presence in the Abaco Cays. They are crediting the Americans with what aid has reached them. Their main concern now is security and the safety of their person and property.

In Grand Bahama, the people of Freeport are concerned that they are being left out of the recovery effort by the lack of any reference to financial support for them in Freeport.

The loans for civils servants offered by the FNM government do not approximate what the PLP did when it was in office.  The PLP allowed up to 20,000 dollars in loans repayable over five years for the civil servants  not the two months salary now being offered by the FNM.

Under the PLP, this applied to civil servants who suffered hurricane damage, for family members of civil servants affected by the storm and this also extended to the employees of the public corporations.

There was also a programme to loan money to pensioners as well.

I remind the Prime Minister of his politically motivated commentary and critique of the PLP government to the media in the aftermath of Hurricanes Joaquim and Matthew. He is strongly advised to follow his own wise counsel.

Two years after the last storm, the people of Ragged Island are asking whether they have been forgotten.

The  Prime Minister should realize that this is not about public relations, but about doing something to help the people on the ground. The storm is long gone but the recovery effort is scattered and unfocused.

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