THE EDITOR, Sir:
I WRITE on behalf of the residents of the over 200 households of the Glenmuir Housing Scheme in May Pen, Clarendon, to complain about the deplorable road conditions.
The roads in this housing development, which was started under the Hugh Shearer regime in the early 1970s and completed under Michael Manley's tenure as Prime Minister have never ever had any repairs done to the them by the Government despite numerous representations to both Local and Central Government.
The residents have, on several occasions, attempted to help ourselves, by spreading marl, but the road has now deteriorated past the stage where this can help. There is now no indication that the roads were ever paved and there are trenches across many sections.
Prime Minister Patterson on one of his first 'live and direct' outreach meetings after the 1989 elections was appraised of the situation and promised to have the matter looked into but this has yet to bear any fruit. Member of Parliament Mike Henry, and Councillor Morris are both aware of the situation, as they both visit the scheme often. We have noted that through their representation, repairs have been done to several other roads in the constituency, some in much better condition than ours, some on more than one occasion but nothing has been done to improve the conditions in Glenmuir Housing.
We are now left to wonder what we have done wrong, or if the only way we can get any response from the relevant government authorities is to block roads and behave unruly.
I am, etc.,
ERROL C. KELLY
tonyk5493@hotmail.com
Clarendon
