T&T 'Cooking with lagoon water'
Government Minister Dr Lovell Francis says there is a community in Moruga where citizens use lagoon water to bathe, wash and cook and their homes have floors that they leepay.
To leepay is to use a mixture of dirt and water to spread on surfaces such as walls and floors in place of cement. The Moruga/Tableland MP vowed to improve the lives of this community, saying that these persons are not supporters of the Peoples National Movement (PNM) and no votes might be gained but he will not leave them in those conditions.
In his contribution to the budget debate in Parliament yesterday, Francis, Minister in the Ministry of Education, said he visited this community (which he did not name) in 2015 and these people live on State land surrounded by private land so their community is like an island.
Madam Speaker, there are people in this country who are still living in 19th century, they have no running water, they have no electricity. Madam Speaker, I told myself when I campaigned there and I saw those families..that if I didnt do something to help them I should not even be entertaining going back as a Member of Parliament, he said.
To leepay is to use a mixture of dirt and water to spread on surfaces such as walls and floors in place of cement. The Moruga/Tableland MP vowed to improve the lives of this community, saying that these persons are not supporters of the Peoples National Movement (PNM) and no votes might be gained but he will not leave them in those conditions.
In his contribution to the budget debate in Parliament yesterday, Francis, Minister in the Ministry of Education, said he visited this community (which he did not name) in 2015 and these people live on State land surrounded by private land so their community is like an island.
Madam Speaker, there are people in this country who are still living in 19th century, they have no running water, they have no electricity. Madam Speaker, I told myself when I campaigned there and I saw those families..that if I didnt do something to help them I should not even be entertaining going back as a Member of Parliament, he said.
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