Tonight the area rep for Fort George is standing with the Caye Caulker Village Council, who protested again today with a picketing procession around the downtown area of the island.
As we have been reporting, they claim that the work to renew their village police station has been halted because the plan changed. The idea now is for the government to sell the beachfront property where the police station sits and build the station in another area.
Usher says the duly elected council should have been consulted:
Henry Charles Usher, Minister of Public Service
"I certainly agree that there was a lack of communication in the beginning that I do believe that the duly elected village council should have been consulted. There should have been a meeting to discuss the plans. I don't necessarily think that it's a bad idea what is happening. I think that the police station will be built. Um, Whether it is built there or built somewhere else, the island will be getting a modern police station. Now, if you want to look at other amenities at the island that the residents of Caye Caulker are looking at, because I've heard that they're speaking about a welcome center or something to that effect, then certainly that discussion has to happen. But where the police station is built is less important than the fact that it's going to be built. And I think that that is important. But in the beginning, that information should have been communicated and there should have been a proper dialogue with the relevant authorities out there."
