God’s peace to you. I feel compelled to write to you to request that you use your powers and do not allow another Pinewood Gardens to be built anywhere in the Bahamas.
Pinewood Gardens is “a structured evil” and in a more progressive society would never have taken place.
While it is true that the recent rain floods were unprecedented – one inch of rain in Pinewood causes havoc.
The poor, the marginalised and the least in our midst must continue to pay for these poorly built homes that ought never been allowed to be built in such swampy areas.
And as usual these struggling Bahamians have no recourse.
Successive governments, especially during election times, have promised to assist these residents, but few have truly delivered.
The developers of this area ought to have taken better care of where they were building and the needed engineering infrastructure was needed to avoid this place becoming a nightmare for struggling residents.
Most times we talk about crime we sometimes forget to ask – “whose crime are we talking about?”.
Bishop Simeon B Hall
Nassau, Bahamas
May, 2013
