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GBHRA: Gov’t must cease dodging on Rubis leak report
By Grand Bahama Human Rights Association (GBHRA)
Jun 2, 2016 - 12:45:11 PM


GBHRA Statement: More than a year has now passed since the government announced an independent review of its failure to disclose what it knew about the dangerous Rubis gas leak to the public.

Given the ongoing absence of the promised report, the GBRHA must agree with former Cabinet minister Phenton Neymour and others who have suggested this review was never anything more than a public relations stunt in the first place.

It was the Attorney General who announced that a retired Supreme Court judge would look into why, after being alerted to the existence of the massive leak, it took Cabinet two years to warn those whose health and safety were at risk from contaminated water supply and toxic fumes.

Yet recently, it was the AG herself who refused to speak on the whereabouts of the resulting report.

Clearly, the announcement of the review was itself an attempt to distract the public in the face of their unconscionable neglect of the wellbeing of the people of Marathon.

The government would do well to appreciate that it will not be able to dodge responsibility for the suffering of that community by remaining tightlipped and hoping this matter will simply go away. It will not.

A serious and dangerous public health hazard was handled abysmally by the authorities, with shocking disregard for the rights and interests of those most affected.

The government is hereby called upon to cease dodging its responsibility to the citizens of The Bahamas and come clean on the results of the promised Rubis leak review.

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