Article A6 · Book 1 · Scrapbook page p.6
THE NEGLECTED CEDROS — PART TWO
Page 16 TRINIDAD GUARDIAN, Wednesday, January 28, 1970
In Cedros residents see neglect as being confined to roads, schools and the hospital.
In this article Staff Writer NIZAM ALI argues that they face these problems along with much more fundamental ones which they have not yet bothered to concentrate on.
[Photograph, scrapbook page 6: portrait of Councilman Bharat. Caption:]
VGE. COUNCILMAN BHARAT ...bulging file of complaints ignored.
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nearly 70 families should be given five-acre plots for agriculture.
Residents have applied for the land but all they can see is that another individual is harvesting the coconuts. In both cases, it is claimed that Party members are involved. While it can be properly argued that roads, water and other facilities have to be provided before farm plots can be handed out, it would appear unfair to many that a Party member is enjoying even this temporary benefit.
Lately, however, in directing their protest to specific areas of neglect, the residents are also pointing up cases of indifference and injustice they have experienced from authorities. If Government has ignored these day-to-day problems, one can imagine how far officials in Port-of-Spain are from tackling the very basic issues that affect the area.
TOMORROW — Frustrations of the Fishermen.
[Photograph, scrapbook page 6: the Cedros WASA office — a wire-netting enclosure under a house, with a car parked inside and a "DANGER" sign; a painted sign on the building reads "SAVE PRECIOUS WATER". Caption piece:]
WASA'S 'OFFICE'
Area Foreman Haniff Lalla in charge of the Cedros WASA office inspects the tools outside the office, which is a 10 ft. by 20 ft. wire netting enclosure underneath a house. The house is so low that there is no standing room for the 18 employees. In the same district there are six vacant Government buildings.