EE/LL sewerage issue is ‘elephant in the room’ — Dr Pickering
The decades-long ordeal of unresolved sewerage challenges that have plagued the East End/Long Look (EE/LL) community has been described as the proverbial ‘elephant in the room’ by former Deputy Premier Dr Kedrick Pickering.
Dr Pickering previously served as the Seventh District Representative while current Health Minister Marlon Penn serves as the Eighth District Representative where residents in those districts have for years been beset by significant infrastructure obstacles, including poor road networks.
“It’s almost the elephant in the room,” Dr Pickering said on the Honestly Speaking show. “If I was supposed to say to you that ‘I have the answer, Eureka, I’ve found it’, then I’d be disingenuous.”
Forget the personalities
Meanwhile, Dr Pickering encouraged residents to look beyond the personalities involved and said they should instead focus on the new ideas that can take the territory forward.
The former Deputy Premier, who has since rejoined the National Democratic Party (NDP) fold ahead of the upcoming general elections, described his absence from the political scene over the last four years as a sabbatical.
He suggested that the time spent away has offered him new perspective and he proposed that new methods need to be found for doing old things. “What I would say is, clearly our approach hasn’t worked,” Dr Pickering shared.
“We have a lot of younger people now who are better educated, let’s put them to work, let’s make those young minds work for us,” Dr Pickering suggested. “Let them show us from a technological point of view, how we can find better solutions to old problems.”
The former Seventh District Rep added that he could already see critics chiding him for his new-found wisdom on the issue. “I can see people saying, ‘let he go sit down. He was one of them he ain’t do a… you know, this thing about blah, blah, blah’,” he stated.
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Them politicians will be elected into office will be in there for years fulling them , family, and friends pockets and every time come election they talk about problem that exists for for years under their watch when will it end a bunch of crook’s
After 20 years we are still here talking the same shttttt….East end/Long look always have 2 sitting senators and they should be ashamed of themselves
The sewage issue has been ignored for over the more than 40 years I’ve been visiting (and living on island). The end result? The sea is practically dead. Fish are far away now. Slaney? Disaster. Charter boats STILL dumping overboard and usually right in the anchorages as the new charters are complete morons. Cane Garden? Money spent but pumper trucks still trying to keep up with the overflowing tanks.
Keep building on the hillsides, let the silt runoff and septic leaving ruin what’s left of the bays. Salt ponds mostly berm filled in by greedy landowners, make them rebuild these critical filters
RoadTown stinks to high heaven as septic pumpers dump into the “system” right in town, right where tourists are!
BVI residents, know your sh*t does stink and hold all politicians responsible for the last 30 years of inept actions.
NDP should be ashamed of themselves having this man return under their banner. Power is everything.
He had 20 years and did zero he is a big disappointment and disgrace not my vote never never he is disgusting
The problem is we keep recycling the same people and same parties with a promise to do better. We need a whole new slate. His words “We have a lot of younger people now who are better educated, let’s put them to work, let’s make those young minds work for us,” Find them get them to run and vote for them.
Runs in front of his gate, for years and he’s doing nothing about it. All he does is walk over it..
Persons in the community is pumping into the manhole every day and accruing more often. That’s the elephant in the room. 🙁
Same f**k every four years.
In 20 years he aint change nothing now coming talking about we need to do this we need to do that… wtf he ever make better than how he meet it in his entire political career?
well , he got to find something to say and ty bto make cit sound good / I wonder what else he is going to find to talk about ? ? , perhaps very can link up with the consultant ( claudie ) for some guidance ? ?
Seems them politicians afraid to be stern with the owner of those properties that are having these issues. Look how many areas water from private properties are running over the side walks and onto the roads and no one is telling those owners to fix this.
I always had some level of respect for Mr. Pickering, and here unintentionally he has eliminated himself.“We have a lot of younger people now who are better educated, let’s put them to work, let’s make those young minds work for us,” These words are the stimulant needed to start equipping the mind of the next elected official for #7. Be like Egypt’s Pharaoh, search out the territory’s best mind so equipped to transform the territory’s sewage issues and encourage same to run for the betterment of Country.
Doc looks like a Don in that picture..
literally and figuratively
All the politicians vision is a Mirage. No vision, no plans no methodology, no accomplishment. The true hallmark of today’s politicians. They only have Mirage.
The fact that in the year 2023 this government is still not able to provide the most basic level of infrastructure to a population this small is more than shocking. It’s a violation of basic human rights as no people in a civilized country should have to live in filth of this magnitude.
If the $$h1t is running right outside his gate, as you write; why would he leave it unattended? know why, it is beyond his control – the problem has existed for over 40 years – never fixed; because no-one knows what to do!! It is an engineering problem.
Any fool would fix problems bothering their own family, residence before all else. This is a bigger problem and the government should request input from a-foreign.