Last year I called on Government and Parliamentarians through an article in this paper to amend all bad Laws. Let us take for example the present Attorney General, or the Minister of Trade and Marketing. I want the Government of the United Workers Party or the Attorney General to advise the people of Dominica on the reason for not amending that section of the Law as requested in my article of 1998. To receive a retiring allowance under the law a person must serve as a legislator for not less than six years. Thus robbing the state of much needy finances.
Government is called upon once more to have that law amended.
The amendment must be done before the next general election to stop the waste of funds, which the country can ill afford to throw away. As Parliamentarians we must be seen to be honest, to ourselves and to the people of Dominica. A Government is there to conduct the affairs of the country for the benefit of all, not for personal gains of government officials, while the people are starving. I as a grandparent whose granddaughter is a first former at the Portsmouth Secondary School and secondly as a retired primary school principal, who was and is still interested in the educational development of our country s youth, feel obliged to pen my thoughts and observations on what has now become a national issue. My main concern however at this point in time is not so much over the asbestos, but over the vast number of contact hours the students and more especially those of Form One have been denied.