The Editor, Sir:

Millions of dollars have been spent to refurbish the Norman Manley Airport to make it into a first-class facility and when it is completed it will be something to boast about. I cannot understand, however, why the only road leading to the newly refurbished airport could not be fixed? So that if we had another hurricane equal to that of Ivan, there might be hindered access to the airport. In this hurricane season, work is just how being done some two years after it was damaged by Ivan. Had the airport not been there, would the people of Port Royal have access to their community? Or would we have to trade in our cars and buy boats?

At this rate, I suspect that the highway bypassing Mount Rosser will be completed long before anything is ever done about this five- mile stretch of roadway, and if I were a betting man, I would probably bet that it will not happen in my lifetime, maybe not even in my children's lifetime, seeing that Mr. Audley Shaw of the Jamaica Labour Party wants to relocate the airport.

I am, etc.,

Keaton Fallon

Kingston