THE EDITOR, Sir:
JAMAICANS, DESPITE callings and warnings from every direction, have ignored all and continue on a path of indiscipline, dishonesty and lawlessness in high and low places.
It takes an old person to show deserving respect to an older, whether on the street, on the public transport or elsewhere.
Order and decency are becoming extinct. Everybody seeks a 'bly' in order to get ahead. People no longer play by the rules, but rather perpetuate corruptive practices, creating a breakdown in the social, economic, and even in the spiritual order. It is acceptable to allow things to deteriorate to chronic proportions before any consideration in attempting to correct same.
We notice exuberant and indiscriminate waste in so many areas around us. Water needs to be properly managed and accounted for. Thousands of litres of this precious commodity run to waste while the inhabitants are pressured to pay more.
Roads and bridges are allowed to go unattended to, while some of the new surfaces fall apart with a few showers of rain that soak the marl, creating potholes and erosions.
Take the bridges, for example, when did we realise that it is unsafe to allow motor vehicles weighing in excess of 12 tonnes to drive on them? It seems that large trucks are targeted to enforce this rule.
I must confess that I do not know the weight of a loaded truck, whether with cement, garbage, sand or lumber. I do know however, the weight of some of the J.U.T.C. buses that are allowed to drive on the same bridges where some trucks are barred.
Trucks are barred because of safety to lives and properties. So why do we endanger the lives of hundreds of commuters daily? This seems to be a cross between hypocrisy and idiotic behaviour.
I am, etc.,
HIBBERT HAMILTON
Passage Fort
Gregory Park P.O.
