Left: Enterprise reporter Tyrone Reid. - Andrew Smith/Photography Editor. Right: The Gleaner driver and a cyclist negotiate potholes along Fairfield Boulevard in Fairview Park, St. Catherine, last week. - Photo by Ross Sheil
The weeklyTyrone's Watch series yesterday placed third in the 2006 Jamaica Broilers Group's Fair Play Awards at the Hilton hotel, New Kingston. The feature, which seeks to lobby for solutions to problems on behalf of Jamaicans, was started on Tuesday, February 21, 2006. Enterprise Reporter Tyrone Reid is coordinator of the series. Today we share feedback from readers.
Ride up Queen Hill
Dear Tyrone:
I am very pleased to see the article 'Hill and gully ride up Queen Hill' in Tyrone's Watch. I have been a resident on Queen Hill Drive since 1977, and it is the worst neglect I have seen.
It is unfortunate that residents have to resort to blocking the roads demanding 'justice', for our voices to be heard. That constitutes the lack of rational thinking by the public officers.
Residents do not need to shout and cause public inconvenience to be heard!
I am, etc.,
Mickey G. Stanbury
Unit Manager,
Aircraft Materials
(Aircraft Checks &
Modifications)
Abuse of the taxpayers
Dear Tyrone:
I was pleasantly surprised by your piece on Fairfield Boulevard. It is about time someone expose this abuse of the taxpayers.
I bought one of the new houses on Fairfield Boulevard in 1991 and that road was never completed. The citizen's association tried without success to get the developer to complete the road. As I understand it, the Government refused to take responsibility for the road because it was incomplete.
Then we had great difficulty entering and leaving the community because of craters in the road. I can just imagine what it is like now. (I now live in Canada).
I applaud you for your efforts and hope that you will have better luck getting the Government to be more responsive to the needs of the 'small people'.
I am etc.,
Samuel Morgan
Exposing the
reality of living
Dear Tyrone:
I am in Virginia U.S.A., reading The Gleaner on-line. I live in the vicinity of where those two photographs were taken on Fairfield Boulevard.
I want to thank you for your support in exposing the reality of living in Jamaica. Usually it is the 'Highway 2000' that gets featured, or the Portmore toll road.
I am etc.,
Everton
Rough roads
Dear Tyrone:
Greetings. It is a pleasure to read and see the wonderful coverage that you have been giving to our rough roads. I noticed where you visited David's Hill and Content Gap in the St. Andrew area and gave us some coverage. I am aware of the wide area that you have to cover and since my return home six years ago, I must say your coverage is the best I have seen and read.
I am etc.,
Louise Jacobs
We want to
hear from you!
Tell us about problems in
your community. We will visit
and help to lobby for action.
Write to: Tyrone Reid,
The Gleaner Company Limited, 7 North Street, P.O. Box 40, Kingston; Fax: 922-6223, Telephone: 922-3400 Ext. 6364 or Email:tyrone.reid@gleanerjm.com
