[File: April 20
th, 2018]
“We are looking at this as an economic source to make us could develop ourselves because the government no reach out to us, they no try to provide ways and means how we could – so we try amongst ourselves as people to try develop ourselves. We the take lick for years over twenty years now they are logging us out and no benefit for the community. The roads bad, the wharf, those places in shambles and we still no di see, still not getting nothing. The logs are going out, we need to benefit.”
But that public outcry didn’t change much and so now villagers hope that this latest meeting with Minister Orlando Habet will be the catalyst for change. Habet says the approach will indeed be different under his watch.