Auntie Charo's Soapbox

Instead, the shirtless man was pointing to his home, albeit, a step above that of a cardboard box, made up of tin and plywood somewhere in northern Guam in a sub-division which has a name...Gil Baza subdivision. Poor Gil Baza to have a slum, or ghetto, named after him. Many problems with the sub division. One, that it sits on water lens and doesn't have proper sewer systems or septic collection tanks which means that 'stuff' goes directly to the drinking water supply...water supply + e.coli....not good! Plus other permitting problems, the families have been given notices of eviction.
These families have no place else to go. They are poorer than dirt. They can't pick up and move. If they had money, they wouldn't be living there. They probably spent their last dime buying whatever it cost for that parcel of land that they're on. Francis Gill is said to have been one of the developers of that property. He was on the Positively Local program this morning saying that he did everything right with the permitting process and that it was up to the buyers to put in the septic tanks when they moved in, blaming the problem on CUC and Simon Sanchez and the current Administration.
Former Governor Carl Gutierrez called the PL show and said that evicting these people out and blaming the problem of waste over the northern aquafir was nothing but politics and that nothing like this would have happened under his administration. He told the people to go ahead and move out and that if he was elected he'd move them back in.
I'm sure that there's enough blame to last a life time. We can blame the last administration, we can blame the developer, DPW, the owner, Gil Shinohara and anyone who now wants to evict these families. The right thing to do is to protect the aquafir. The right thing to do is to protect the rights of these people to have a home. If we say that they can't live where they are living at now, then we must make available a place where they can.
If there was someone, or an entity was at fault and the government can recover any moving or relocation funds, then the government should try to recover its funds via its judicial system.
In the meantime, these people have obviously been living over these water lenses for many years.......which makes one wonder what the rush to move them(as in evict) off the property is about?