Auntie Charo's Soapbox

"What has me riled up real bad is the situation at the Gill Baza
development. Why Francis Gill isn't in jail I don't know. He is really messing up the environment and breaking a lot of hearts of low income families with his land selling scheme over there. $42K plus for a quarter acre at 12% for 30 years and a total cost of about $153K. That is terrible and more so considering he didn't install a sewer and water system. Guam cannot afford a health problem of the magnitutde that is possible with what is going on over there. Besides human waste they are dumping household trash in the jungle. And GEPA and the Yigo mayor aren't doing anything about it. I knew about that area for a long time now and I can't believe the mayor of Yigo didn't. He did and waited until it made the PDN headlines and KUAM news before getting involved. There is also the matter of about 40 families or so getting free water from the ball field across from the mayor's office. I'm sympathetic to the problems of those residents over there in Gill Baza Gardens, or whatever it
is, but when the rest of us face an increase in water rates, I don't think it's right that others can get it for free. Like Carl Guitierrez does...or did. He still might be getting it free for all we know Charo. Eviction of all those folks might seem cruel, but public health is most important too. Apparently most are MIcronesians, and at the risk of being accused of racial profiling, I say that they shouldn't be allowed to come to Guam and cause a disease epidemic and create a slum area. One guy has 10 kids. Outrageous. I found it, even with a steady income, tough to finance two kids. The more kids a family has, and not having a decent job and reasonable income, the less quality of a life can be given to
the kids. Little kids will be happy, but little kids grow up and when they realize they're not getting the nice toys and clothes, etc. that other kids are getting it will cause them some personal grief. Some will turn to crime and be in trouble with the law a lot. Read the Police Blotter and see that it's true. More on my mind, but enough for this time. Since you are back I assume you ve posted to your website. I shall drop by and see what you'be posted.
Ah yes...Seagreaves' trial now in March. Will Michelle Limtiaco's family ever see justice done? I'm beginning to have my doubts.
I better sign out before more thoughts enter my wittle mind."

Isn't it wonderful that the Yigo commissioner is so generous with the water that he literally gives it away? The taxpayers having to pay for it? Hey, Gil Shinohara while he was director of which-ever agency it was what he allegedly signed away the performance bond that should have forced Francis Gill to install the sewer system to the Gill Baza sub-division already caused the water agency to pay for the cost of the installation of the infrastructure(big word-hate it) and here's an elected bird brain that's giving the expensive stuff away for free!!!!! Next time my lawn needs some water, I think I'll drive up a few 36 gallon buckets up to the baseball field and fill them up and if anyone asks, I'll just say I live at the Yigo ghetto housing, the one that everybody's talking about. On second thought, I don't have to fib. I deserve that water for free...just as much as anyone of those people who live at either of those ghetto places created by greedy slumlords.
I suppose Mr. Yigo Mayor will be re-elected. Who else gives away free water...probably power too, if you need it!....hmmm, wonder if he gives away free air miles!
I'm really quite surprised that those eighty families are taking being taken on a ride so calmly. KUAM's video of one of the attendee's at the 'town hall meeting with EPA Friday night, caught the man calmly picking his nose....the only thing deep in thought that night wasn't in the ground(as in sewer or paying for another lot to make the slumlord richer)! But....he eventually, maybe, needed water and some anti-bacterial handwash! Oh to be a photographer for a t.v. station!!!