I refuse to be fired a 4th time! Malone vows fix for EE/LL sewerage
Health Minister Carvin Malone said he refuses to be fired a fourth time from the East End/Long Look sewerage project and insisted that residents in that community will see its completion after an interminable wait.
Malone’s company, Caribbean Basin Enterprises, was previously contracted to execute works on the project under a former administration, but had been terminated for unknown reasons.
“We are going to fix the sewerage problems up in the eighth electoral district. I was fired two or three times from that project and I refuse to be fired a fourth time,” the Health Minister said at a Virgin Islands Party (VIP) rally held recently.
“We must get that project finished,” Malone added.
The issue of the delayed project has been a topical one between the two major political parties of late, particularly after Eighth District Representative and Opposition Leader Marlon Penn chided the current government for not having completed the project under its watch.
The $8 million previously allocated for the project was instead put towards the Pier Park project during the previous ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) administration. Since then, ministers within the VIP have assured that funds for the project have been replaced from the territory’s consolidated fund.
Recently, Works Minister Kye Rymer said the entire project will now be completed and is expected to be approached using a phased strategy.
The works on the ground during the first phase are to ensure that the existing system in the Long Look and Greenland areas are connected and subsequently collected at the main pump station at the Long Swamp area directly adjacent to the East End Police Station, Minister Rymer explained.
“In the second phase, as put forward by the technical team, the plan is to undertake the Parham Town to Long Swamp main gravity line. These works once completed will connect the Chapel Hill area all the way to Long Swamp pump station for collection onwards to the treatment plant,” Rymer stated.
He expressed that the first phase of works is anticipated to be completed by August 2022 to coincide with the commissioning of the treatment plant at Paraquita Bay.
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We will fire you during the next election cycle for sure and you could take that to the bank
4th time? Look at an embarrassing situation. Can’t fix the sewerage problem but up and down enforcing mask and sanitizers. Sewerage is a bigger problem. I am surprised people are not becoming sick from this.
Hi the road jack spania, your time it up.
Sir with due respects this is what you should refused to let happen
– I refused to have a hospital serving thirty thousand people and not a specialists “EAR and THOART specialist at the HOSPITAL check today and verify the facts . Perhaps you do not know what is going on ?
Refused to have Doctors working at private institutions on the island and giving a part of their service to the hospital
… Then to get proper care you have to visit them there because the hospital does not have its own
Refused to have a board with people who are not medically trained and know nothing about the goods and services ,to run an efficient hospital
Refused to have a Board who do not know the rules of both hospital staff and patients relationship to each other because they are not in the field
Refused to have nurses being abused by the public when they do not have neither the tools nor expertise of specialist doctors to deal with the needs of the patients
Refused to have the public threatening speakers of Spanish (staff) that they could get them fired because they are friends of politicians when they are doing their best.
That is BVI Love
Since you are accustomed to getting fire then when we fire you at the next election it shouldn’t hurt to much. Clown soup!
Was Berger CBE awarded the contract again? Am I reading between the lines correctly?
It sounds so.
Even after failing at it 3 times by their own admission.
So he is giving us the heads up that his company is getting the job with or without a bidding process. Stay woke!
He certainly won’t get my vote or that of my family this time around.
Never hear of this contract being cleared in the house. I guest we will have to wait until the next six months for it to come to the house to hear about it.
Boasting of a failure once money in the pocket.
I cannot imagine the state of the pipes that were laid there badly years ago…. probably will say they will have to be dug up again !
Also seems they now have permission to use the land opposite police station for the pumping station… this was a stumbling block for the NDP if I remember correctly and was stalling the project..
I wonder how VIP were able to barge their way onto that small piece of land that couldn’t be bought by NDP…
barge you say, is that a code word ?
Yep