Remarks in Morne Rachette (Part 5): So it says that you do not necessarily have to wait on a Prime Minister, a Government, to come to do something for you in the community. That you can start and join hands and get it going. I find that in this country today, there are people who put every responsibility on the shoulder, in many cases, on one person called Roosevelt Skerrit, the Prime Minister of the country. If our drains are blocked, we expect the Prime Minister to come and unblock it. If our children do not go to school when they have the buses taking them to school free of charge, they blame me for the children not going to school. But we have to take responsibility of our own future and our own development. And I believe you here in Morne Rachette have demonstrated that you needed a resource centre. You went and you negotiated for the land on your own. You got the land on your own. You were negotiating the plans on your own. You got the plans on your own. You did the estimates on your own. You got the estimates on your own. You started raising funds and then you went and you asked for funds. And it is instructive, Mr. Paul, want the Canadians said to you - go and build it, when you build it we can assist you with furnishing because they would not do those things for you because they recognize that it is a communitys responsibility to put the infrastructure down and the other things they can assist with.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:05:00 +0000