I AGREE 100 per cent with the views expressed by Town Clerk, Mr. Errol Green, as reported in Thursday's issue of the Jamaica Observer regarding street lights that do not work.
The Jamaica Public Service Company cannot be allowed to short-change the public any longer by collecting money for street lights that do not work. It is my opinion that if sums are deducted each month for non-functioning street lights, that they will be repaired or replaced in short order. For Mr. Davis of JPSCo to be "taken aback by the statement", merely shows the way that JPSCo thinks in regard to its customers and the public in general. Most companies would readily agree to what is a fair and reasonable decision on the part of the KSAC.
The number of street lights that are not working has reached alarming proportions. I made a point of checking on my way home last week, and stopped counting at 36, in a short distance between Marescaux Road and Hope Road. At our building on Marescaux Road, for example, the three street lights have not worked for the past two years. The entire bank of lights opposite to the Nuttal Hospital has been out for months now. Reports to JPSCo are a waste of time.
But I make one suggestion to Mr. Green: that instead of asking Councillors to report on non-functioning street lights, that citizens be afforded a special too-free line (or lines) to the KSAC to make reports on any lights not working. Further, that a list of such lights be published with updates as to their status on a weekly basis. Congratulations, KSAC, this is a tangible way of serving the public.
