A section of Highway 2000.
THE PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) government's greatest strength is building roads, while its least is fighting crime and violence.
That is according to the latest Gleaner-commissioned Don Anderson poll, conducted between October 18-November 8.
Respondents were asked, 'What is the thing the Government is doing well?'
Highway 2000 was a factor in road building being rated by 39.5 per cent of respondents to be the Government's strength, against 7.6 per cent for crime and violence. Interviewees credited the Government's road building programme which includes the Highway 2000 project.
OTHER POSITIVES
"Improving education, providing housing for people and improving the health facilities, promoting tourism and providing the infrastructure for technological advances to be made are also positives that they associate with Government performance," said pollster Don Anderson.
There was agreement across all demographic groups that road building is the Government's number one strength, however the poll detected variations between parishes - St. James, Clarendon and Hanover in particular. In St. James, 51.9 per cent were for housing; Hanover residents are big on health, while Clarendonians favoured borrowed money, although it was unclear whether they viewed it as positive or negative.
The poll, conducted by Anderson and his team of researchers from Market Research Services Ltd., interviewed a nationally-representative sample of 1,000 people aged 18 years and over, across all parishes. There was a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 per cent.
