St. Louis:--- The St. Louis Women’s Organization has become vocal on the issue of building a social home (ASHLM) in their community. Speaking to SMN News president of the association Laurel Richards said recently, they learnt that someone intends to build a set of social homes at the entrance of St. Louis on a vacant plot of land that was recently sold. Richards said the association has been trying to obtain that parcel of land since the 1990’s to no avail. She said they approached government to see if they were willing to purchase the land for them since the Association wanted to build a “locale” or community center there.
A center she said was to be used for teaching youths of St. Louis the island’s culture. The Association also needed some place where they could hold their meetings. Richards said despite their pleadings government did not provide them with the much-needed space and as such the resorted to keeping their meetings under the tamarind tree in the village. Just recently, she said they learnt that the parcel of land was sold and the intention of the buyers is to build some social homes.
Richards said the people of St. Louis do not want any social homes in their village and they are making it abundantly clear to those who has plans to do such. She said the association intends to keep a meeting sometime next week where they would be discussing the recent developments. So far, there is no plan of action Richards said.