Dear Editor,

I AM very pleased with the provisions made in Budget 2021. It’s a breath of fresh air to hear the Senior Minister of Finance announce an allocation of over $1B to tackle our sanitation issue in the country, and another $1.1B to tackle the issue of community development in the 70 local democratic organs and 10 municipalities. I am even more excited that we will get to see how government spends the over $522M for NDCs.
I am proud of these intended allocations as this signal’s that the administration is serious about our democratic organs and their development.
One only needs to look at the situation in the Better Hope/LBI NDC as a prime example of government taking care of its citizens needs through the councillors. We have started an unprecedented community project where we are going around to every area meeting the residents and listening to their concerns in the communities.

We are getting ready with the help of the government and the businesses to fix our roads and bridges in the area that were being willfully neglected by the previous administration. The NDC has been trying to get its work done with its citizens. We are meeting the community workers and letting them know how much work we are expecting to get done while extending our gratitude to them for staying and answering our calls during this COVID-19 pandemic phase.
All the help is needed from the Regional Democratic Council to make our jobs much easier this year. I hope that we will build a relationship stronger than the one we have developed during the one of the past administration. Also, our plans for the upgrade of our fields and community centre are taking shape. We welcome this budget and seek to partner to get the work done.

Yours sincerely,

Zaman Shaw