Get into communities

STOP building fancy buildings for community workers to operate from and let them go into the communities to work.

According to community practitioner and Democratic Labour Party (DLP) candidate for St. Michael South East, Rodney Grant, societal issues that need to be solved are in the communities and “not in the buildings” across Barbados.

“Bring the youth workers from in the buildings and bring them back out here. Bring the cultural workers from up NCF [National Cultural Foundation] and bring them into the communities. We have problems to fix, so we have to start to reform to go forward,” Grant declared.

The head of the Pinelands Creative Workshop made the suggestion on Sunday, as he delivered remarks during the official launch ceremony held to introduce him to constituents, at the Parkinson Memorial School.

He also noted that there is a need for health officials to get more involved in the community, suggesting that doctors and nurses leave the polyclinics to make their way through constituencies to carry out basic health checks on residents.

“Why can’t we, going forward, push as a people and get all of these nurses and doctors, rather than sitting down in the polyclinics, come out and do health checks and see what is going on with the people, so that we can be a little more proactive in dealing with all of these issues we face?” he queried. (AH)