STATEMENT BY #2 MP MARCELLA LIBURD
This morning just outside the McKnight Community Centre, a simple but very important ceremony was held. It was the handing over of a bus to the the Association of Persons Living with Disabilities from the SIDF.
This was part of a project started under the Labour Administration when computers and a smart board among other things were handed over to the Association. We believe that no one should be left behind and so Persons Living with Disabilities were given the opportunity to learn the technology. In 2014 the SIDF set about to find a bus to assist with the transportation of Persons Living with Disabilities. That exercise culminated today with the handing over of a bus designed for such persons. I was happy to be present at the ceremony to see the culmination of that project.
I was happy to represent the St.Kitts Nevis Labour Party as we continue to support Persons Living with Disabilities. I was also there as the Parliamentary Representative for Central Basseterre as we in Central have adopted the Association whose home base is the McKnight Community Centre.
I want to thank President Anthony Mills and all the other members of the Association for their hard work, TDC and Mr Earl Kelly for partnering with the Association, Mary Clarke and all the others who work with these differently-abled persons, Rusty Liburd for so ably chairing the proceedings, Delroy Prentice, the hard-working Community Development Officer of the area and all the special persons who attend classes and other activities at the Centre on a daily basis.
I also want to thank SIDF for completing the project. Thanks in particular to Terrence Crossman and Sheila Williams for starting the search for an appropriate bus to accommodate these differently- abled persons. We are happy that despite the negatives that were heaped on the SIDF that there are those who now understand the good that the SIDF can do. Congrats to all who made this event possible.