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Jun 25, 2009 News
The removal of homeless persons from the streets of Georgetown has commenced with a number of those being picked up in buses and taken to homes.
Yesterday, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, said that the homeless in the city of Georgetown are being removed to appropriate places for lodging.
Those of unsound mind will be taken into care at the mental public health institution, he said.
The indigent, on the other hand, he said, will be clothed, housed and fed at the state expense.
Dr. Luncheon added that even if the homeless persons leave the place where they are being housed and return to the streets, they will be removed again from the streets.
“The exercise is intended to keep the homeless off the streets so even if they were to return they will be again taken off the streets to ensure that they do not remain there,” he said.
Some of the homeless will be taken to the East La Penitence facility for homeless persons.
According to Dr. Luncheon, the campaign to remove the homeless from the city would be matched by one to enforce the law against littering.
As such moves will be taken to rail against the ‘unsightly’ placement of signs and advertisements on the public byways, on posts and on traffic and telephone columns.
Dr. Luncheon said that the practice to have posters pasted on these structures to promote dances, picnics and outings will have to stop.
“Cabinet instructed its officers that the practice must not be tolerated and must cease.”
As such, Dr. Luncheon has issued a warning to the syndicate promoters that there will be aggressive cohesive action taken to abort this behaviour.
On June 17, Dr. Luncheon announced that the home for the homeless will cost US$2M to build and will be located at Onverwagt, Region Five.
He said that Minister of Public Works, Robeson Benn, has submitted the design, the quantities, the estimates and the tender documents for the construction of the home.
Dr. Luncheon said that the home will not be a prison with ‘cells and electrified wire fences’ but instead persons will be housed on a voluntary basis.
According to Dr. Luncheon, the design will include a number of flat buildings with a dormitory type of arrangement.
This facility will house more 100 persons, he said, adding that males and females will be in separate buildings within the complex.
The complex, he said, will be for long term residence for homeless persons and as such amenities for recreation, medical care and physical work related activities are included in the plan.
Persons at the home, he added, will be called upon to partake in the planting of fruits and vegetables along with other agriculture activities at the facility.
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