Well done Bagotville/Nismes!

I HAVE been involved in community work for all my adult life, dating back to the 70s. I have been residing at Nismes for almost 25 years, during which period I have tried my utmost to play a meaningful role in the overall upliftment of the villages of Bagotville and Nismes.There have been many start-ups, but the enthusiasm soon withers away, and the various groups/organisations either die or merely limp along.
This has resulted in very many capable and knowledgeable individuals, like myself, either giving up hope altogether or rallying on, hoping for an elixir of some sort to effectuate a renewal.
That elixir was administered on Monday, May 11, 2015, and the miraculous effects were visibly demonstrated on Sunday, June 7, 2015 with a profound manifestation of love, unity, togetherness, co-operation; genuine old-time village life.
I am referring here to the massive clean-up campaign by the residents of these two villages.
And even though I did not join in from its commencement, I could have felt the immense love, enormous satisfaction and prodigious sense of pride of all involved. They were working, but to them it was pure, unvarnished, unadulterated joy.
This exercise is slated to be continued on Sunday, June 14, 2015. This outpouring of intense, positive emotions would have been impossible to be evoked prior to May 11, 2015.
I, however, would like to exhort the residents of Bagotville and Nismes to continue to pursue this same spirit of unity, neighbourliness and mutual respect in all other aspects of community development.
It has been said that when you have reached the summit of a mountain, you just do not descend, but you instead look for a more challenging one to conquer.
It is my intention to agitate for a group of about 12 persons to be elected from amongst the current residents who are engaged in the current clean-up exercise to form a sort of a Bagotville/Nismes development committee to look into areas such as, but not limited to:-
1) Ensuring that the LaGrange/Nismes N.D.C., work for, and with, us and not for LaGrange only.
2) Proper playground for our youths.
3) Engaging the relevant authorities with a view to ascertaining a time-line for the completion of the Bagotville koker; embarking on a holistic drainage programme for Bagotville, so that it can once again become a thriving farming community; significantly improving Nismes Old Road; ensuring that the construction of the recently built wharf at Nismes has not compromised the sea defences and the drainage canals; transforming the Bagotville Community Centre into an edifice that is worthy of, and relevant to the 21st Century; also removing the monstrosities that slumber on the northern section of the entrance.
For 23 years, the villages of Bagotville and Nismes were cuffed, kicked, head-butted, and spat on by the past Administration, and we the residents have to organise ourselves so that we may improve ourselves and our communities.
Long live the Coalition!

MICHAEL SCOTLAND

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