Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali says government has committed $50M for the development of the water and housing distribution network in Angoy’s Avenue and plans are in train to sign a contract so that work can start.
According to a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release Ali made this comment in his address to hundreds of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam residents who for years “have been denied access to proper infrastructural developments such as roads, water and electricity.” The release said the community is considered a squatting area and the Co-operative Society responsible for it had obtained an injunction preventing the Central Housing and Planning Authority from carrying out developmental works in the area.
Ali said the matter is now resolved and government, in its drive to ensure that every citizen can access basic amenities will soon move to regularize the area. “We realize that we cannot allow five persons to stagnate the goals and development of hundreds of persons in Angoy’s Avenue, so we would not be satisfied until every person who wants a plot of land gets it, and that is the commitment of this Government that we are going to work tirelessly to ensure that every single deserving person who qualifies for a plot of land is allocated such so that they can build their home,” he said.
Ali said his ministry is very focused on community development and it aims to ensure that “every single community” has basic infrastructure that will allow citizens to enjoy an equitable share of capital investment.
Under the miscellaneous roads programme for 2011, $360M will be spent to improve the road network in areas such as Albion, Port Mourant, Grant 1778, Nigg, Belvedere, Cumberland, Bush Lot, Liverpool, New Amsterdam and Corriverton.
