All kudos to the president-elect must be tempered by a strong dose of reality. Anthony Carmona has a well-known history of seeing and saying things as they are; his reign as our new president is not expected to be different, at least not by me.
We in Bon Air Gardens, Arouca, expect when he meets with the Prime Minister he would demand answers about the URP and Cepep since those two social welfare programmes seem to have become a free-for-all for all sorts of anti-social characters. Instead of deserving, needy people being helped, pimps, prostitutes, drug runners and pipers are now controlling everything in Bon Air Gardens, where I live, and in lower Arouca.
Something needs to be done before things get out hand since my neighbourhood has a very dense youth population, especially females. Unsavoury characters in our midst make us very uneasy. Mr new President, I beg you, put in a word for us soon. At this dark stage, after God, you're our only glimmer of hope it seems.
Jacqueline George
Bon Air Gardens