Charlestown, Nevis
March 05, 2008
Premier of Nevis Hon. Joseph Parry joined the call of a number of stakeholders on Nevis for greater caution on the island’s roads, the need for safety measures and public awareness at a symposium on Emergency Response and Safety, on Tuesday March 04, 2008. The meeting was hosted by the Nevis Disaster Management Department (NDMO) at Long Point.
“We need the police to help, we need the drivers to help, we need to have public awareness programmes and we need to have safety measures taken. We have to make use of the radio or the television, we need to go in the schools [and] we need to do all that is necessary to create that awareness.
“It can be done and it will be done before we lose any more lives. Three in any one year that is quite enough we don’t need anymore. We are not in the statistics business we are in the lifesaving business so let us do something about it now,” he said.
The Premier explained that people continued to speed on the island’s main and village roads; drink and drive; to hold up traffic to chat and to walk the streets unperturbed by traffic and believed that the recent fatal accidents had done nothing to change their attitudes.