Works and Transport Minister Jack Warner on Friday commissioned an elevator for the physically challenged at Phase 2 Powder Magazine, on the Diego Martin Highway.He noted that although the Manning government completed the walkover since December 2007 they didn't see it fit to assist the country’s disabled people by installing an elevator.
He invited Diego Martin Central MP Dr Amery Browne to the ceremony to commission the lift noting that Browne supported a government that spent millions of dollars to build skyscrapers and hold summits, but could not spare a few dollars to install the elevator, which is in Browne's own constituency.
The elevator, which cost $1.2 million, is the first of its kind ion the country. Warner noted that the price tag included installation, labour and the equipment.
He noted that the tide has turne.“What we have to do now is take care of our people,” as he to install similar elevators on all other flyovers.
"We must make it easy for differently abled people. For us to be a first world country, we have to be first world in how we treat our differently abled citizens,” he said.
"Our major role as ministers is to improve the life of people,” he said.
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