A Newfield resident told Prime Minister Gaston Browne during a town hall meeting that the community has been “overlooked” for more than a decade, saying “nothing has changed” in the area despite repeated election promises.
Speaking during the question-and-answer segment, the resident said that for “about 14 years” Newfield has seen no meaningful infrastructure development.
“Every building, every road, everything has stayed stuck in time. Nothing has changed,” she said. “We have so much land but no infrastructure change has happened, no form of development in my area.”
The constituent questioned what had become of commitments made during past election cycles, asking repeatedly, “What happens to Newfield?”
She added, however, that since Randy Baltimore became caretaker for the constituency, she had seen some movement.
“What I can say is that so far I’ve seen that he has been making progress, with the roads being fixed and it’s being done,” she said, urging the government to support Baltimore if elected.
“I am asking the government to support him when we put him there. When he asks for infrastructure and housing, give it to us. When he asks for roads, give it to us. When he asks to help young children get scholarships and develop our community, give it to us.”
Prime Minister Browne responded by pointing to works already undertaken in Newfield, including road repaving and upgrades to the community basketball court.
“There have been a number of roads that have been repaved within the constituency, including Newfield,” Browne said. “We also resurfaced the basketball court… it now has lights, and someone will be doing the marking out and paving it with the top surface.”
He said discussions are already underway with Baltimore, whom he described as the “incoming representative,” to construct additional homes in the constituency.
Browne also referenced the government’s entrepreneurial fund and scholarship programmes, encouraging residents seeking financial support to work through Baltimore.
Baltimore followed the Prime Minister’s remarks by outlining additional plans specific to Newfield. He confirmed that the basketball court has been paved and will be marked, and said a new playground facility will be installed for children in the area.
He added that road resurfacing will continue and that arrangements have been made with the Central Housing and Planning Authority to clear overgrown trees in the community. A crew from Solid Waste is also expected to assist with cleanup efforts.
Baltimore further disclosed that land has been identified for a housing project in Newfield, with plans to allow young residents to access home ownership opportunities.
The exchange unfolded as part of the March 16 by-election campaign in St. Philip’s North, with development, infrastructure and youth opportunities emerging as dominant themes during the town hall session.
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A promise is a comfort to a fool. You folks in Newfield cannot be this dumb nor stupid keep helieving the ABLP LIARS.
Gaston Browne and Baltimore will promise everything under the sun right now. They will even start doing things to outsmart the unsuspecting because they are desperate. Do not be fooled anymore. 50 years of neglect is more than enough, in fact it is CRIMINAL
The people in St. Phillip must also take responsibility. For 50 years they continued to vote ALP, with nothing to show for it. Yearwood amassed a multiple million pound estate while most people in St. Phillip are dirt poor.
Them people here are hypocritical and speak from both corners of their mouth, even as they are crying out for help, they are praising the wicked Antigua Labour Party at the same time, it’s either they are afraid of Gaston Browne or they enjoy suffering.
The Antigua Labour Party is not Committed to Developing certain areas of Antigua and Barbuda, so Randy Baltimore overseeing the pavement of a Road, this is certainly nothing to come home and praising him about, real retardation of this Sick individual..
The individuals whom voted all these years for the Antigua Labour Party, are Sick Individuals, and are lacking aspirations and inspiration and are contented to remaining there, settingin in Limbo.
Them all wants to come out and condemn Gaston Browne and the Antigua Labour Party, but are mortally afraid to do so, not realising that they got nothing to loose.
And ABLP will be back!
Thanks for going into thorough detail @FC.
You highlight exactly the type of ABLP acolyte and Gastonite supporter that this government attracts who justccannot string two sentences together if they tried.
I’ve only really come across a handful of ABLP supporters (if that!) who can expressvthemselves properly in the written word on these ANR threads.
Sometimes it makes me ashamed to be from the same island 🏝
EMBARRASSING…
Promises,Promises,Promises,then there are EMPTY PROMISES.Voters of Newfield and beyond do not fall for their bullchit again,this time.All they want is to keep their majority in Parliament.While you the Voters suffer,daily.Time to vote them out of town.
This newfield girl ain’t no fool, she is intelligent and spoke the truth outside the box, you can hear someone in the background calling to her to calm down, and because she is with the group, she wanted to feel validated. And the made her feel as though she is getting personal or having institutional confrontation with the very ALP that her parents and everybody else obeyed like children throughout their years, and newfield just stay stuck in time.
Love you young lady, you will become a political force to reckon with, and please don’t feel you betray anyone to vote for Alex brown, because all that you espoused Alex advocated for there redress, on the other hand randy expects to behave nicely to Gaston’s commands and have power devolved from robin to him, and keep robins legacy the way ALP wants it, randy will not be able to have an opinion, he is a nice guy but it would not be him in charge it would be Gaston, he will be a proxy ministers to hold the seat for ALP exploitation, check at long bay and devil bridge and even driving past all those fence and stone wall of all the lands taken up by robin or his white friends.
This newfield girl ain’t no fool, she is intelligent and spoke the truth outside the box, you can hear someone in the background calling to her to calm down, and because she is with the group, she wanted to feel validated. And they made her feel as though she is getting personal or having institutional confrontation with the very ALP that her parents and everybody else obeyed like children throughout their years, and newfield just stayed stuck in time.
Love you young lady, you will become a political force to reckon with, and please don’t feel you betray anyone to vote for Alex brown, because all that you espoused Alex advocated for there redress, on the other hand randy expects to behave nicely to Gaston’s commands and have power devolved from robin to him, and keep robins legacy the way ALP wants it, randy will not be able to have an opinion, he is a nice guy but it would not be him in charge it would be Gaston, he will be a proxy ministers to hold the seat for ALP exploitation, check at long bay and devil bridge and even driving past all those fence and stone wall of all the lands taken up by robin or his white friends.
All Randy gon do is promise and promise and ride all r u 🤣
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