Tempers flare at RDC over funds for One Mile Primary rebuilding

By Jeff Trotman

 

Region Ten Chairman Sharma Solomon has lashed out against persons who have hinted at a perceived lack of accountability in the manner in which solicited funds for the rebuilding of the One Mile Primary School by self-help has been handled.

The One Mile Primary School was one of several buildings destroyed by fire during the month-long electricity rate hike protest in Linden between July and August of 2012. A special committee, headed by Maurice Butters, APNU member on the Region Ten Regional Democratic Council (RDC), was set up to spearhead rebuilding of the school by self-help with funding from several sources, including the Diaspora.

However, the rebuilding programme was plagued with interruptions and before much progress was made, the government conceived a multi-million dollar rebuilding programme and hired a contracting firm to rebuild the school in another section of the compound. The government’s rebuilding project is in an advanced state, with the completion date anticipated by the end of February 2015.

 

Tempers flared at the December statutory meeting of the RDC, when AFC Councillor,