(MENAFN- Caribbean News Now) Dear Sir:
The Keith Rowley-led People's National Movement (PNM ) administration continues its long, open and continued political discrimination against children residing in constituencies which are represented by the opposition.
The most glaring is their absolute refusal to complete and open the Ramai Trace Hindu School in Debe, which is in the constituency of Oropouche East.
In September 2015 when Rowley's PNM entered the corridors of government, the Ramai Trace Hindu School was 95 percent complete.
On Friday, December 2, 2016, 15 months after the PNM was sworn into office, in response to a direct question from Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal in the House of Representatives, the Minister of Education Anthony Garcia gave a public commitment that his ministry will ensure that construction will be completed in the shortest possible time.
That promise was made in parliament two years, six months and ten days ago.
Today, three years and eight months after assuming office, no work has even been commenced on the remaining five percent that is required to complete this school.
Their action and decision lend to the alternate meaning of PNM… Promises Never Materialize!
The refusal of Keith Rowley's PNM administration to complete this building continues to place untold hardships on the very young children who attend this school. For the past three years, students have been made to journey for as long as an hour to makeshift classes at a Hindu temple at Rock Road. In some instances, these children must leave home as early as 6:30 in the morning and return home sometimes after the sundown.
In a small country where the annual budget exceeds $50 billion, where the government can find funds for its unwanted vanity projects such as purchasing obsolete and unneeded paintings, funding a Soca Fete Cruise, paying $16 million for one of its supporters to call himself the country's lobbyist in Washington, paying another $130 million to 'complete' the Brian Lara Stadium, spending over $250 million to acquire the loosing Massy Communications, spending millions every year to fund the Tobago Jazz Festival, paying for a minister's roaming cell phone bill of $59,000, to having another minister spend $95,000 on himself and his personal 'guests' on a weekend junket in Tobago and then paying over $150,000 to settle a harassment case against the same minister.
All the while, the children of Debe are being abandoned and oppressed by the politics and deliberate policies of alienation and pauperization by this administration.
Under the Keith Rowley-led PNM administration, every creed and race does not find an equal place.
Capil Bissoon
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