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Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has reaffirmed his commitment to the complete eradication of pit latrines in Atkinson.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister held a meeting with the Atkinson Village Council recently where the council highlighted their priority areas, most of which aligned with the government view as the priority areas there.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, we are going to completely eradicate the presence of pit latrines in Atkinson,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a list of 13 and I have approved that list, and we will finalize the quantity of each of these areas, because obviously we have to look at the location of homes, so the cost may vary on that and we will send the money to the council so that the council will implement the eradication of the pit latrines in Atkinson.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that housing was another priority area mentioned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe agreed on the construction of some homes for residents there,\u201d Skerrit stated.<\/p>\n
He explained that land was acquired some time ago, however, there appeared to be mitigating issues, so further investigations are to be made.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are prepared to build on individual lands,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, the prime minister stated that part of the challenge his government had in the past is that some of the potential beneficiaries had issue of land ownership, \u201cso we have to try to help them to address that issue.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cWe are going to be helping them with the improvement of access in several areas in Atkinson. They have pointed out to us road improvements and so we will also be doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n
In March 2014, Prime Minister Skerrit pledged an initial $150,000 to the Atkinson Village Council as the government continued its efforts to eradicate pit latrines across Dominica.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose of us who grew up using the pit latrine know of the sense of pride when we started using a modern washroom,\u201d he told the 16th Inaugural Meeting of the Atkinson Village Council. \u201cI would like for us to work with the council for us to eradicate pit latrines in Atkinson. I am committing an initial $150,000 for that effort in Atkinson.\u201d<\/p>\n
In October 2013, the government launched what was described as a \u201cwar on pit latrines\u201d in Dominica, which form part of its Home Renovation and Sanitation Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has reaffirmed his commitment to the complete eradication of pit latrines in Atkinson. The Prime Minister held a meeting with the Atkinson Village Council recently where the council highlighted their priority areas, most of which aligned…","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":336500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n