Given the pallid state of the economy, I was hoping the Government would provide us with a cogent plan to address its anaemic growth. The fairness doctrine dictates that growth targets should get priority over debt and deficit reductions, because only growth can negate these two albatrosses which have a stifling hold on the Jamaican economy.

I cannot be alone in feeling that at the top of Wellington Drive, St Andrew, there is an accident waiting to happen.Wellington Drive has become, in the mornings and evenings, a vital bypass of Liguanea for town and university traffic.

It's Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at about 1:35 p.m. and I am in my car in a line of traffic on Old Hope Road, near the exit of Campion College and not too far from the police station. I look in my right side mirror and notice that there is a big yellow JUTC bus edging out of the line of traffic.

Please allow me to utilise this forum to express my concerns about the Junction Fire Station. Having identified the issues that have been affecting the services given by the firefighters there, I have conducted research in an attempt to find out if the issues were made known to the relevant authorities and the extent to which communities have been affected.