Dear Editor,
The construction of the much talked about Aurora Primary and Nursery Schools are rapidly progressing, and from the vantage point of passersbys it looks very good.
But there are some questions still to be answered, and at the very top of that list is what has become of the more than eighty percent, or almost twelve truckloads of the dismantled materials which consisted of both lumber and zinc sheets.
The people in authority must tell the beneficiaries, the stakeholders, the members of the Parent Teachers Association, and the residents of this community, who from time to time were asked through different ways to contribute and had contributed towards the maintenance and delivery of education through or from that demolished building.
The public has a right to know and that right must at all times be respected.
The regional officials who are expected to have a copy of the Bill of Quantity and the contract document must be more vocal in relation to this missing school materials.
This deafening silence from some quarters is a cause for concern, especially when evidence is in the public domain that a group of persons from one ethnic group had requested a small portion of materials and they were advised that a procedure has to be followed. Then, subsequently, the said materials had ended up in possession of persons from another ethnic group without that same process being observed.
It may have been particularly galling for those who would have attended the school, their children and currently their grandchildren, to be denied what was to them a reasonable request.
Recently I visited the office of the Good hope/Pomona Neighbourhood Democratic Council, where residents from time to time are led to believe that the Bill of Quantity for any project undertaken by the Government would be at the NDC. Office for them to see, and if necessary extract a copy, but I was told by the Overseer that none is or was ever there.
Sincerely,
Archie W Cordis
Concerned Resident
