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This is the music of Peter Tosh, ladies and gentlemen, let’s give a compliment. Good morning and welcome again to another edition of the New Era show. Ladies and gentlemen, of course, this morning we’re going to get right to the point on the show. Of course, as usual, on Monday we’ll hear from the president and leader of the NDP, Dr. Godwin Fried. Of course, last week on Friday, the NDP went to the North Leeward region and had a very important meeting, I would call it a good one-on-one meeting it was a strong meeting, a necessary meeting with a lot of strong speakers from the NDP to bring home the message and the importance and the issues around the quarry project affecting the people of the North Leeward riding, so what I want to do this morning is, for those of you who may have missed the meeting for one reason or another You can go back and you can see it all on the NDP Facebook page, but I want to show you Dr. Friday’s presentation and I want to show you Dr. Freddy’s presentation from that meeting on the show and then we’ll break for New Times News and I want to show you another presentation from that meeting on the show, so let’s not waste any more time and let Let’s get started, this is what Dr. Freddy said at the special meeting in North Leeward, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much to all of you who are tuning in via social media, and of course, I have to be here with the people now that they have this major crisis looming because every time I come into this village, I get such a wonderful welcome because every time I come into this village, I get such a welcome , from when I enter all the villages, but in Fitzhughes I feel very special, every house we go to, every person I meet on the street, you give a welcome and when I see what’s happening in this proposed quarry in Richmond, I say suggest, because it hasn’t started yet, they are cutting the roads and all that, but they start blasting, so from now on to that time, a lot can happen and when I saw what was happening, I said no, I have to stand up, I have to put the full weight of the NDP, my politics to come here in solidarity with the people of Northlywood, especially the people of Pitts one year ago today, you were faced with the disaster of a software volcano exploding one year ago today, on a night like this, people rushing to get out of this place, fighting for your lives and your safety, you stuck it out, the volcano erupted, he did its thing, people came back as usual, you wanted to get on with your lives, you wanted to make it better, not worse, and then when you And when you came back, you didn’t see the encouragement you wanted, not the support you should have counted on, you now had to oppose a project that no one in the government thinks you need to know about, let me tell you, this project as my colleague said, it has a lot of serious implications, serious problems for this constituency, why is that, why would you ask yourself if this is so good for the picture, if it’s so good for Natalie Wood, if it’s so good for the Symbians and the turn Grenadines, why is it in why in the election when they’re trying to get votes they don’t come and bring it to you and brag about it why one day in the council when we’re talking about various items they’re bragging about things that you know don’t want to happen when they know it’s going to happen they don’t say a word about it and then when people go out on Saturday morning for business you see trucks and tractors going onto people’s land and trashing their crops with absolutely no respect for the people and the effort that they put into it what happened? The people of the North Leeward region..
. … …the people of Fitzhughes…
… …do not deserve the same treatment as the people of the rest of the country… .
.. Everyone deserves to be treated… … When I came here..
. … We came here two months ago, we came here recently, we came here again tonight… …
I’m not going to let this opportunity go because there are so many issues that need to be addressed and you hear my colleagues say that this is not development or use by the people of this constituency, this is not even development. They look down at the mountain, the rock, the ridge that separates Richmond and Petrus, they look at it, they don’t see the wrong rock, they see the green dollar bills, they start trying to turn the rock into money, the interests of the people of this community are secondary, ask yourself how you can bring about a project of this scale, this destructiveness, because when you’re doing quarrying it rips up the land, you have dust, you have noise, you have vibration.
