Residents ask about Carrot Bay Post Office, Premier has no immediate response
BVI News Correspondent - Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 at 12:29 PM
First District representative Andrew Fahie (left) and Premier Dr. D. Orlando Smith. * File photo. Credit: Andre ‘Shadow’ Dawson.
Government seems not to have an answer as to when the people of Carrot Bay will have their own Post Office.
This question was put to the Premier and Minister of Finance Dr. Orlando Smith at the first ‘Government on the Road’ meeting recently held in Carrot Bay and he was unable to give a direct and clear response.
“I am afraid, I can’t give any exact answer to that but if you call by Office tomorrow morning, I will be able to tell you,” he said.
The Carrot Bay Post Office is one of those projects in the First District which the representative Andrew Fahie said has not been given any attention by the current administration since it came to office more than a year ago.
Giving his annual report to the residents of the First District in January, Fahie said, “I continue to respectfully ask the current administration to please inform me so that I can inform my people of the progress on these matters.”
“The Post Office building, that was the idea of you my people but it has seen no progress thus far. It was always your desire that we can use that building for a multiplicity of government and other essential services to be housed in the First District. A place where we can go to pay our different utility bills, among other things, rather than having us, especially our seniors, pay someone to take us to RoadTown to do our business,” he said.
Fahie told the meeting in January that when he asked the question about the Post Office at a recent sitting of the House of Assembly, he was informed by the current administration that in 6 months time they will review the matter.
He committed to pursuing the matter in 2013 on behalf of the people in the First District.
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“I am afraid, I can’t give any exact answer to that but if you call by Office tomorrow morning, I will be able to tell you,” he said
Why persons have to call this mans office to get an answer to a simple question. What’s the secrecy about a darn post office in C bay?
Carrot bay needs a lot of things.People of carrot bay better stand up for carrot bay our carrot bay get wet.It looks like they don’t want carrot bay to have Notting .wow!
ndp had the heart to go carrot bay and they fully well knew that they did nothing down there for the past 15 months they’ve been in power?? shame on them!!
why does carrotbay need a post office? they just need one of the businesses down there to act as a drop off point where people in teh vilage can get their mail. they can use either big bens or a place directly located in carrot bay to provide this service. they dont need a full service post office. just mail boxes and a depot where they can collect stuff and do business.
To Vince
Get a life.
I agree.
you are one sore looser
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