Mr Peter Simon - Taxi Driver:
Right now anything would help whether it is the Government or the Opposition making the proposal. The people need help and it is for the betterment of the community. If the Government wants to talk about development in this country, it has to be anywhere. And Mr Hoyte's proposal will certainly help reduce the crime situation. The Government should consider it and do something. This is one of the depressed areas. And anywhere there is unemployment, there is crime. When you pass Buxton most of the young men liming. They have nothing to do.

Anand - Company Secretary (Banking)
The Buxtonians need help. They need a lot of help but not from the politicians because the politicians would not help them anyway and as a matter of fact they are the ones that have the village the way it is. I think the Buxtonians need help in more ways than one. If they can elevate their self-worth to that extent where they see themselves as people who can go after certain things and get it, then fine. The politicians have poisoned their minds and they believe that their cause is just and they will continue to struggle. Apart from that, you will hear that there are not criminals in the village while the other side is saying something else. If the village does not have criminals then how do you account for the fact that so much criminal activities occur there.

Rupie Shewjattan - Castrol race car driver
Everyone is saying that Buxton is harbouring criminals. Mr Hoyte should have told the villagers to prove the people wrong. If the Government and contractors, for instance, can go in there without being harmed then people might say otherwise and give the Buxtonians many opportunities. I know a contractor who is afraid to go into the village. It would be nice to know that Buxton has the same opportunities like everyone else because in every village there is some amount of crime but I don't think that the money Hoyte is proposing that the Government inject into Buxton will work. It's like they are holding the Government at ransom. They get this money and in another six weeks they might demand that more money be spent in the village. The Government will just be stepping into a hole.

The village has problems and other people might also commit crime and the blame goes to Buxton. There may be a few criminals in the village, but all the other people in there allow the few to destroy the road the Government built for example. That road could have been used to promote good business. I might be passing through and want to stop and purchase something, but I cannot stop there with what is going on. And should the Government invest more money in there and the people want more things, it is the same things they are going to destroy, just like they destroy the road to get recognition.

Colette Layne - Kitchen Attendant
The Government should consider Hoyte's proposal because the people there need work especially the young people who might not have jobs. I think if the money is spent to improve the area, things might be a lot more peaceful there.