No clear plan! Penn chides gov’t for BVI’s poor infrastructure
Opposition Leader Marlon Penn has criticised the ruling Virgin Islands Party (VIP) administration for having no clear plan on how to approach some of the dire infrastructural issues facing the territory.
“What we’ve seen from this administration is a constant patch-and-go approach to fixing the terrible areas of the road infrastructure,” Penn said on the NDP Radio show recently.
Penn argued that the issue for the VIP is largely one of prioritising and allocating the necessary funding to address the issue of the badly needed road repairs in the territory.
“We’ve seen the conversation online — and just along the entire territory — persons are complaining and have concerns, rightfully so, concerning the road infrastructure in this territory.”
Penn said his former governing National Democratic Party (NDP) put provisions in place through a Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) loan to address infrastructure issues, months before it left office.
“There’s no clear plan, other than the plans that were established, the designs that were done, to fix the infrastructure issues in our territory, to fix those additional infrastructural issues,” he said.
Penn claimed that no other road infrastructure projects have been executed by the VIP administration other than those secured through the CDB loan funding acquired by the NDP.
According to the Opposition Leader, for two consecutive years – 2020 and 2021 – $300,000 had been allocated in the budget to address road repairs around the territory, but he maintained that this was insufficient.
Furthermore, Penn complained that a $200,000 subvention that was previously awarded to District Representatives to address local infrastructural works within their own communities has now been cut to $100,000.
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The roads was worst under you all don’t forget you was the patch and go for 8yr
He was not the Minister of Communications and Works responsible for all roads in the Territory so hush!
Pusser’s recently paved parking lot is already riddled with potholes
Couldn’t believe it when I saw it myself. It will be a terrible site before years end.
Marlon, why don’t you lead by example and fix the roads in your district?
Because there is NOTHING he can do. All roads in the territory is the responsibility of the District 5 Representative Minister for Transportation, Works and Utilitie!
That comes under Transportation and Works . He is in the opposition
Let Marlon hush he mouth. You could of swim in some of them potholes under NDP. All you just miserable from looking power.
Stop talking nonsense. Because it happened under NDP that mean it should continue on this administration? Hon. Penn have a to make sure the government do their job. They got elected to fix the problems not continue them.
Everything will get a lick of paint and 1/2 inch of blacktop before the election. Should be fine.
infrastructure was worse under ndp no question about that
Got the nerve to charge the public road tax?..It theft
There are some big holes on the street close to the police station in Eastend, so big a hole full of water, when will they fix these swimming ?♂️
They spent the money on the Speakers legal bills.
If they didn’t learn from the COI. Continue doing as they wish…Hon Penn we can talk until we bleed..
He doesn’t have any plan either. Greenland to beef island still the same old way