Jan 23 - GSD Highlights More Concerns Over Health And Safety During Laguna Estate Works
The GSD Opposition says it has received complaints from tenants at Resolution House in Laguna Estate about the lack of concern for the health and safety of residents during the refurbishment works within their housing estate.
Concerned residents have explained to the Opposition how the main entrance to Resolution House has been closed off due to the works and that this, therefore, only leaves access into and out of the block via the unlit back entrance. Furthermore, says the Opposition, families residing at Resolution House, including young children, have to walk directly under scaffolding without safety precautions having first been put into place.
According to the GSD, the temporary entrance which residents and visitors alike are now forced to use is deemed “highly dangerous” by tenants who have, to no avail, been trying for the last few days to contact a Government Official willing to listen to their concerns and take appropriate actions where possible. To add to tenant’s dismay, says the GSD, a resident was informed by a Government Official that the best course of action was to contact the Laguna Estate Tenants’ Association. But the GSD argues that tenants find this recommendation by a Government Official “totally unacceptable” as it is Government itself who are the Landlords and not the volunteers who help enhance quality of life within Laguna Estate via a Tenants’ Association.
The GSD Opposition Spokesman for Housing, Edwin Reyes, calls upon Government, in particular the Minster for Housing, to look into the many concerns being raised on a daily basis by tenants throughout Laguna Estate and to take it upon herself to oversee that appropriate actions are taken without further delays. The GSD Opposition also calls upon the Minister with responsibility for Health and Safety to ensure that all adequate and necessary procedures are being strictly adhered to; the lives of residents in any Housing Estate, says Mr Reyes, “cannot be put at risk under any circumstances.”
