(SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION BRINGS CHEER FOR CHRISTMAS – RONALD MUSSINGTON GIFTED A NEW HOME FROM HAPPI)
The Ministry of Social Transformation handed over a newly constructed home valued at $150,000 to Ronald Mussington of Villa. This initiative is part of the government’s Home Advancement Programme for the Poor and the Indigent (HAPPI).
The handover ceremony was graced by several dignitaries, including Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, who is also the Parliamentary Representative for the area and Minister of Health, Wellness, Social Transformation and the Environment, Sir Molwyn Joseph.
Head of the Social Protection Board, Ms. Marie Baltimore and Founder of HAPPI, Veldon Raguette were also in attendance.
Prime Minister Browne, speaking at the ceremony, expressed his commitment to furthering the goals of the HAPPI while emphasizing the government’s dedication to scaling up the initiative in the coming year, with plans to construct more houses to benefit the nation’s most vulnerable.
He also announced that the home will be outfitted with free broadband internet, which will be provided for up to one year, further improving the quality of life for Mussington and his family.
The Prime Minister highlighted the government’s innovative approach to the program, which involves engaging skilled prisoners in the construction process. This initiative not only increases the number of houses built but also provides valuable opportunities for prisoners to develop skills that will aid in their reintegration into society.
Minister Joseph echoed the Prime Minister’s sentiments, emphasizing that the programme is about more than just building houses—it is about transforming lives. He noted that the involvement of skilled prisoners in the construction process is a testament to the government’s commitment to rehabilitation and second chances.
These individuals are learning valuable skills that will prepare them for life beyond incarceration, ensuring they can contribute positively to society once released. Minister Joseph praised the program’s holistic approach, which uplifts not only the recipients of the homes but also those involved in their construction.
Head of the Social Protection Board, Marie Baltimore, highlighted the collaborative effort required to make the program successful. She commended the Ministry and its partners for their tireless work in addressing the needs of the most vulnerable. Ms. Baltimore reiterated the Board’s ongoing commitment to identifying and supporting individuals and families in need, ensuring that the program continues to reach those who require it most.
Founder of HAPPI, Veldon Raguette, expressed his heartfelt gratitude to the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, the Ministry, and the Social Protection Board for their unwavering support.
He described this partnership as the most impactful collaboration in all of his years of being involved in charity work, emphasizing the life-changing impact the program has had on individuals like Mr. Mussington. Raguette called on corporate and community partners to continue supporting initiatives that create sustainable change.
As the new homeowner, Mussington shared his gratitude for the generosity and support he has received. He expressed that this home represents a fresh start and a brighter future for him and his family.
The ceremony concluded with a renewed commitment by all stakeholders to expand the Happy Home Advancement Program, ensuring that more families can benefit from this transformative initiative in the years to come.
The Ministry of Social Transformation would like to thank Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, Townhouse Furnishing, King’s Casino, Cool and Smooth, Furniture Gallery, Louis Brothers, leslie Barnes, Sunny Limited and the Harrison Centre for their sponsorship which made this a success.
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There are many indigent persons in the Gray’s Farm community who are living in delapidated houses.
Why can’t the Gov’t introduce a housing program in the area to assist these persons and to help improve the esthetics of the area.
ask BALDWIN SPENCER why when he/Stanford had the chance to bring a housing project to Grays Green, he turned it down because of BAD MIND!!!??????
Great pm Gaston brown, but I need to see more tangible real estate been constructed that can create generational wealth due to the material construction it could evolve to future generations, our government gotta serve as the reparations mechanism to benefit us who suffer abject poverty by 400 years of slavery, the creation of wealth for white monopoly capital domination in Barbuda lands and buffer zone and beach access blockage been authorize by your government and I dear say both party will uphold white instructions as a government with their Centristic political ideology inculcated by the neocolinial agenda to please white monopoly capital, I see you are unpredictable Gaston, so surprise me in our lifetime and make these moves, get the defense force to join with the prisoners to build concrete homes with cisterns and perhaps swimming pools for our people, you already have the concrete trucks which was a brilliant move, and the knowledge and skills transfer and discipline the prisoners will have acquired working withe soldiers would serve as rehabilitation making them prepared to re-enter society productive and civic minded.
Great pm Gaston brown, but I need to see more tangible real estate been constructed that can create generational wealth due to the material construction it could evolve to future generations, our government gotta serve as the reparations mechanism to benefit us who suffer abject poverty by 400 years of slavery, the creation of wealth for white monopoly capital domination in Barbuda lands and buffer zone and beach access blockage been authorize by your government and I dear say both party will uphold white instructions as a government with their Centristic political ideology inculcated by the neocolinial agenda to please white monopoly capital, I see you are unpredictable Gaston, so surprise me in our lifetime and make these moves, get the defense force to join with the prisoners to build concrete homes with cisterns and perhaps swimming pools for our people, you already have the concrete trucks which was a brilliant move, and the knowledge and skills transfer and discipline the prisoners will have acquired working with the soldiers would serve as rehabilitation making them prepared to re-enter society productive and civic minded.
oh SHUT UP!!!! You sound like the Monday Morning Quarterback. HAPI is seeking donations. Have you donated shit???? or you just like to run your mouth, criticize and offer no positive ACTION????
GOD BLESS THE HON GASTON BROWNE & MR. VVELDON RAGUETTE!!!
My man looking like an elf on a shelf with that stupid hat, all these people in these comments always saying what the government should do for people. The government don’t care about people they’re all about enrichment of themselves can’t you clowns writing this garbage about what the government should do get the point that they don’t care…..
and you must be a HOMELESS, JEALOUS, BADMINDED ELF with no one around you, slipping away in misery, groaning and complaining!
WHAT THE HELL: …FLANKED BY OFFICIALS? …WHO IS WHO? ‘…HAPPI’ LIKE HELL
Factually, the ‘…RECIPIENT MUSSINGTON,’ is ‘…FLANKED’ by
(i) ‘…PRIME MISTER, GASTON: and
(ii) The ‘…HAPPI,’ if not ‘…Happiest Police officer/ ‘…HAPPI PROJECT OFFICER- SENIOR SERGEANT VELDON RAGUETTE.’
The ‘…State Gesture,’ was not only welcomed, but also surely highly commendable.
But behind all of this, ‘…Some People,’ abandoning ‘professional careers,’ seems ‘…Quite Happi Like Hell.’
ANR:
Clearly a ‘TYPO.’
Editor might wish to look at these two words:
(i) ‘…FLANKED: and
(ii) ….FALNKED.’
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