— Min Broomes tells residents

MINISTER within the Ministry of Natural Resources Simona Broomes has urged Lindeners to work together to improve the status of the town.
“I am here to work with you, to serve you on the way forward. So we’ll do it together,” Broomes said, noting that her aim is to help Linden experience “community-level growth” by 2020, working together.

She added: “The time for complaining is over. We got to mobilise and we got to meet often, we got to plan, we got to be strategic because we have to ensure that our people are feeling their government.”
Broomes challenged every councillor to get on board, go into communities and help make the town a better one.

“I call on every RDC councillor and regional councillor to get on the road, get into the neighbourhood, get into the village, go where your people are, don’t let them always run and look for you, go where they are and find them, see the roads, see the bridge, some lil opportunity you know about, share it with your comrades, get the young people motivated, the women in order, get the men in order, look for the senior citizens,” she charged.
Broomes said she will be visiting Linden and will go into all the areas and constituencies to see what is happening and what can be done.

Persons from the various communities will look into the kind of development that is needed in their communities.
Among the issues raised is that residents were not being employed by out-of- town contractors when projects are being done in Linden. This issue they were told will be handled by the Regional Democratic Council.

After the meeting, Broomes gifted the communities with lights. Clothing, among other items, were also given to residents who were present.

Also present at the meeting were Member of Parliament Jermaine Figueria, former Region 10 Chairman Mortimer Mingo, Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform Region 10, Deon Adams, and councillors, among others.