Edghill hailed by parliamentarians
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Joe Edghill, who was remembered as a “colossus of Christ Church”.
Edghill, who passed away last April 20, at the age of 73, represented the BLP from 1994 to 2008 and was MP for Christ Church West Central.
He also served as Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly.
With several of his family members present including his widow Angela, Edghill was heralded as a man of the people and for the people.
Leader of Government Business Santia Bradshaw said Edghill served his constituency and constituents with distinction.
“What has been the takeaway for me from Joe’s life was his service to the people of Christ Church West Central and that is undeniably what every member that speaks today will recall about him.
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Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley called for an increase in the monthly parliamentary stipend allocated to MPs to provide assistance to constituents.
He described the current amount as “a joke”, and most inadequate to respond to the needs of constituents. He asked Government to reconsider it.
He made the call while paying tribute to late Christ Church West Central parliamentarian Joseph Edghill whose legacy is not to be found in capital infrastructure projects or in tangibles symbols such as community monuments, but in his efforts to build a sense of community in a constituency that had developed in some of its prominent areas, a reputation more negative than it was positive.
Lone Opposition MP attacks constituent assistance
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Leader of the Opposition Bishop Joseph Atherley has knocked a stipend to parliamentarians to assist constituents as a “joke” and has called for a greater amount to be allocated for the grants given the current economic climate.
Atherley made the comments in the House of Assembly as MPs paid tribute to their late former colleague, Joseph Edghill, who represented Christ Church West Central during the Owen Arthur administration from 1994 to 2008.
He said: “The monthly parliamentary allocation we get to help us represent our constituents is a joke! It is gone before it comes, and especially in these times, coming off more than a decade of bad economic performance, on the heels of COVID, and with a virtual shut down of the tourism industry; it is tough out there!”
February 16, 2021
Operation Seek and Save has so far found 18 cases of COVID-19 from the over 60,000 households it has visited in communities across the nation, the chairman of the Cabinet’s Sub-Committee on COVID-19, Senator Dr Jerome Walcott, announced on Monday.
The Foreign Affairs minister and surgeon, who has responsibility for coordinating
Operation Seek and Save, said that over 62, 000 households had been covered and 168 “suspicious households” – homes where COVID-19 infections are suspected had been identified. As of Sunday, 236 rapid antigen tests had been done along with 197 PCR tests, he added.
While he did not name the communities where the coronavirus had been found, Dr Walcott said cases were located in Christ Church, St Philip, St George, St Thomas and St Michael.
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The two-bedroom house which was extensively damaged in Vauxhall Gardens, Christ Church, yesterday. (Picture by Lennox Devonish.) Social Share
Barbadians are being urged to continue being their brother’s keeper, especially during these difficult times.
The call came from Member of Parliament for Christ Church West Central, Adrian “Medic” Forde, following a blaze yesterday morning which left a family of four counting their losses. The two-bedroom, uninsured wall structure in which they lived was extensively damaged in Vauxhall Gardens, Christ Church.
Forde said officers from the Welfare Department along with him and his constituency team had already secured accommodations for the family.