Dear Editor, I have reported on behalf of all citizens of Farringdon Drive and Farringdon Heights, off Jacks Hill Road, the deplorable condition of our roads. A section of this road has been badly damaged after the Water Commission repaired a pipe. Marl has been left so high that a sleeping policeman has been created. We have had to put up with this for too many months now and I wonder if we were to stop paying our taxes if it would make any difference, as even as we pay them now we have to drive every day dodging craters and brokenaway roadways. Are we waiting for the next hurricane season to blame it on the rain? This has destroyed most of the frontend parts of our cars and has also caused several near accidents, as most times you have to decide whether you are to swerve from a hole or from a car. Please Minister, or Prime Minister, take a drive up here and see what we have to encounter every day. I am sure that you will agree that this cannot be the direction of your new government. Do we have to block the roads in order to have them fixed? This cannot be the way to go and I am sure, Prime Minister, that you have a plan for Jamaica, for if we are to increase our tourist arrivals we must first have pride in what we drive on and how our country looks. Not just the highways. Are we to spend our own money fixing these roads? It’s bad enough that we have to pay GCT for the car parts that we have to change every few months, when we drop into one of these huge holes. This was the same tax that we pay to have the roads fixed. Did the tax also drop in the hole? Soon to be without a car.

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