Injustice to students
published: Wednesday | August 24, 2005

THE EDITOR, Sir:

WHILE I acknowledge the fact that the Jamaica Urban Transit Corporation is operating at a loss, and that they need to find some means of increasing their revenue, could they not have found a better way of doing it? They could for instance, increase the fares by $10 and find some other means of getting the rest, instead of pressuring poor people's pockets.

Government workers are being allowed to pay $35 until March, because by that time the memorandum of understanding will expire. The government workers' wages are frozen until March, but what about non-working tertiary level students who do not have any wages that can be frozen? I live in Duhaney Park, and to go to school for the week, it usually costs $600 (minimum); now the cost is $1,000 per week; $4,000 for the month. Where is that money supposed to come from? We just simply cannot afford it. It is too much for our parent(s) who have other children and themselves to think about.

Jamaica is getting from bad to worse, the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer. The poor simply cannot take anymore, and if it continues like this, there will be total anarchy on this small island, and the way things are going, can you blame us?

I am, etc.,

M. WILLIAMS

Duhaney Park

Kingston 20