THE EDITOR, Sir:OUR FOREFATHERS gave their lives for equality, truth and justice for their fellow Jamaicans and ended the final shreds of plantocracy. Today, the current government has allowed the fundamental and basic human rights of its citizens to be eroded.
The average working class Jamaican can no longer feel safe as he conducts his business from day to day. He can't afford private security and his ability to pay is nil.
The average Jamaican citizen cannot pursue his academic potential because he cannot afford to pay the exorbitant tuition fees. Portmore, the largest municipal in the English speaking Caribbean, is now under threat.
Those who cannot afford to pay to access the developed road will have to turn to the Mandela Highway, the same one that is now congested and cannot be improved under the agreement signed by the Government.
Our route home has been signed, sealed and delivered to a European construction powerhouse. We have no say. Over the next 35 years each household that has a vehicle will pay approximately $1,000,000.
This is a second mortgage for a road owned not by us but by developers. The Causeway has been sold or given away in the name of development and we are left with nothing.
I am etc.,
HOWARD HAMILTON
Portmore, St. Catherine
