2013-09-10 Drainage Division

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YOUR REF: D.D.11

Tuesday 10th September, 2013

The Director
Drainage Division
Ministry of the Environment, Water Resources and Drainage
Pine North – South Road
Pine
SAINT MICHAEL

Dear Sir

Re: Severe Drainage and Flooding Problems at Trents, Trents Tenantry and Church Point Saint James during Rainy Weather Conditions

I refer to our earlier correspondence relative to the above captioned matter, ending with your letter dated 27th April, 2012.

During the course thereof, you indicated that your Ministry was “in the process of finalizing grant funding to implement the recommendations of the 1996 Drainage Study which remain viable, as well as to devise and implement new strategies, taking into account climate change. This programme is scheduled to commence within the current financial year.”

I, therefore, now write kindly requesting you to inform me as to the status of this “grant funding” as well as the implementation of these “new strategies,” since we are now well into the financial year following your letter.

You are no doubt aware that the very severe flooding and drainage issues continue to be an extremely serious problem in these districts.

I look forward to receiving your written response in the very near future.

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YOUR REF: D.D.11

Tuesday 10th September, 2013

Re: Severe Drainage and Flooding Problems at Trents, Trents Tenantry and Church Point Saint James during Rainy Weather Conditions

Yours faithfully,

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Edmund G. Hinkson, M.P.
Member of Parliament for St. James North

cc. The Honourable Denis Lowe, M.P.
Minister of the Environment, Water Resources and Drainage

The Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of the Environment, Water Resources and Drainage

The Residents of Trents, Trents Tenantry and Church Point

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Edmund "Eddie" Hinkson is an attorney-at-law residing in Waterhall Terrace, St. James. The husband of Beverly and father of Erica and Gregory, he has an outstanding record as a community leader. He has been a member of the Lions Club of Bridgetown for the past 24 years and has the honours of being named the Best President of the Lions Clubs in the Caribbean District 60B and of serving as the Lions Clubs Leader of Barbados. Eddie has been a member of the Advisory Board of Directors of the Salvation Army for the past 5 years. He has also served as a member of the Council of St. Johns Ambulance Association, the Association of the Blind and Deaf and of the Council for the Disabled. Eddie has been a sub-committee chairman of the Small Business Association and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. A member of the Lawn Tennis Association and the Paragon Tennis Club, he has sponsored cricket, football and netball tournaments, provided prizes at school speech days, assisted churches with outreach and mentorship programmes, provided food vouchers to needy persons and helped in finding solutions to constituency issues relating to land. In government, he served as Chairman of the National Conservation Commission and the Severance Payments Tribunal, Deputy Chairman of the National Housing Corporation, the National Advisory Committee on Disabilities and the Building Advisory Committee as well as a Director of the National Cultural Foundation, a Member of Consumer Claims Tribunal, Income Tax Appeal Board and the Harrison College Board of Management. Internationally, Edmund is an officer of the International Bar Association, a member of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association and a member of International Who’s Who of Professionals.