Symister says street-naming and house-numbering project should be continued, but doubts ALP Gov’t would be interested

A call is being made for the continuation of an initiative that was
started by the United Progressive Party Administration: that is, the
naming of streets and the numbering of homes across the island.
 
Leon Chaku Symister, the Party’s spokesperson on legal matters,
says this project would streamline a number of processes, including
the elimination of voter padding in the constituencies.
 
Accordingly, he is wondering whether this project could be
completed before the next General Elections.
 
Symister recalls that the UPP Government began the initiative
before losing office in 2014 and left scores of street signs – just
waiting to be erected – in the Local Government Office on Cross
Street.
 
However, he is not optimistic that the Antigua Labour Party
Administration would want this process to continue, since it would
be vital to the framework of the electoral process.
 
But it would be in the interest of the Government to have houses
numbered and streets named, since this is a feature of a modern
society, Symister says.

Funding for the street-naming and house-numbering exercise
reportedly came from the Government of Venezuela under the
stewardship of former Ambassador Joan Underwood, and the road
signs and street names were created out of consultations with the
respective communities, Symister says.

Unfortunately, he adds, the Labour Party would not be interested in
any initiative that would promote fairness.