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  • 8 months ago
The community centre does not belong to you - it is for the community. It's the reminder coming from Community Development Minister Shamfa-Cudjoe, as the Ministry continues to confront issues of people holding the centres hostage. Rynessa Cutting has more.
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00:00A reminder from the Minister of Community Development that community centres belong
00:05to the entire community.
00:08It is a hub for development, a centre for exchange, a little place for empowerment and
00:15education.
00:16It is not a place for Miss Ethel or Miss Belinda to take the keys and keep them and you have
00:23to fight her for the keys.
00:29In some communities that has been the situation over the years so we are grappling with some
00:36of that kind of behaviour in some communities.
00:39The community centre belongs to the community.
00:45There appears to be some issues as well under the public-private partnership.
00:50Every resident of the community has ownership to the community centre.
00:56Even in the communities where the state didn't originally build the community centre, you
01:03have where families would have given up a piece of their land and community groups would
01:08have started their own community centre.
01:10The very fact that you've entered this partnership, this arrangement, this agreement with the
01:15Ministry of Community Development to build, to refurbish and so on, it now belongs to
01:23the entire community.
01:26So it's for everybody, from every group, from every political party to use.
01:32The Minister was speaking at the official opening of the Twin City Community and ICT
01:37Access Centre.
01:38We are on community centre number 58.
01:42The most recent one we opened was in Mova and on Friday we head down to La Brea for
01:47community centre number 59.
01:50We've opened community centres in every crease and crevice of Trinidad.
01:56Cayman, Mitawa, Bagatelle, Boise Joe, Maraval, Degomartin, you name it, it is a space for you.
02:04Meantime, Minister of Digital Transformation, Hassel Barkas, is encouraging the users of
02:10the various ICT Access Centres to make full use of all the services offered.
02:16So it's staffed by members from your own community.
02:19It provides access to the internet, access to digital devices if you need them, access
02:24to government information services, access to training, access to support in the use
02:29of technology and all of this is being provided to you, the community of Twin City, at no
02:34cost to you as the user.
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