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Contact:
Claudia Monlouis
Friday, June 18, 2010 – The Government of Saint Lucia is awaiting the
necessary information from the technical staff of the Ministry of Communications
and Works on the next step in carving out a new physical development plan for
some of the areas most affected by crime in the city of Castries.
Minister for Home Affairs and National Security Hon. Guy Mayers says Black
Mallet, Tou Rouge, Maynard Hill, Wilton's Yard, and Grass Street, are
encompassed in a special project that will transform those areas into a safe,
viable extension of commercial Castries. Many of those areas he says, provide
safe havens for criminals because of their physical design characterized mainly
by thick bushes, limited or no vehicular traffic, poor lighting and dead-end
roads.
Mr. Mayers says getting rid of features that make areas conducive to criminality
is being addressed urgently.
“The instructions are that we will re-open the Maynard Hill road into Tou-Rouge
but in addition to that join the Black Mallet road into Maynard Hill so that you
can have circulation of traffic through the area. There’s also a road coming
from Ferrand's Dairy along the Marchand River that comes to a dead end just
about fifty feet from the Tou- Rouge road. The plan is to open that up as well
so we can have vehicular traffic flowing through.”
The National Security Minister says the Saint Lucia Electricity Services in
partnership with government in the fight against crime has provided much
assistance by erecting several electrical poles in the lower Tou-Rouge area
where a high level of criminality reportedly occurred under the cover of
darkness.
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