Sidney Sweeting, DDS
It is a truism that hindsight is always better than foresight and when Mr.Purcell Pinder started, many years ago, selling fish from the ramp at the Montagu foreshore, someone should have put a stop to it and insist that it be sold at a proper venue but little did anyone imagine that it would develop into the full market that it is today.
For many years numerous committees have been assigned to develop a plan to have the ramp relocated and each one has dissolved with no solution but time is running short.
With the buckets of conch slop, the putrefying fish and conch, the total lack of hygiene control we now have at the site a prescription for an outbreak of hepatitis or cholera and if nothing is done it will not be a question of will it happen but when.
Why do we too often wait for a disaster to wake us up? In a case like this it demonstates a total lack of responsibility on the part of both Governments.
Its just another example of the government not giving a damn Dr.Sweeting, simple as that.This has been going on for how many years now ? We can’t even get a policeman to the light in the afternoon to book the idiots on the right lane that swing left at the last minute.What is going on in this country, there seems to be no law.Now we have armed robberies in the middle of the day, right in front of the few tourists we have left.Is there anyone out there ????????????????
Dr Sweeting I grew up a stones throw from the Montagu Ramp, on my last visit to Nassau ( 1st time in 17 years) I was amazed of the condition there, in this year of 2011 how can any sane minded government not get this eye sore smelly site cleaned up, the total appearance and condition of the Montagu area went downhill after the demolition of the old Montagu hotel. Dr. Sweeting committees will only debate an issue, something every PLP or FNM government has done for decades, and done well, stop the selling of fish/conch at the ramp and move fisherman to Potters Cay, it’s really the only solution, sure many will be upset, but it’s a matter of hygiene control.