THE EDITOR, Sir:I do not think Jamaica Public Service Company is serious about an amnesty. If an amnesty is given to delinquent customers, why create such a mountain for them to climb to reach to you? You say that those contracts that have been approved should pay a part of their bad debts and make arrangements to pay the rest and the same day they sign their contract the other day they must find money to buy wire and pay electrician to rewire their houses.
Are you serious about an amnesty? You have bought the JPS. from the Jamaican Government with all those bad debts and you make a profit every year. Couldn't you have written off those bad debts and let the delinquent customers start a new? Most of the houses are wired before the ceiling was put on. So will the house owners have to tear down their ceiling to have their houses rewired and when those ceilings are torn down and some of them broken, who pays?
You say that those who do not comply with your rule will be prosecuted, taken before the court, fined $1 million and those who can't pay will go to prison for several years.
Do yo think that you are dealing with millionaires to pay you one million dollars in court? And if they were millionaires wouldn't they be paying their light bills? When you spend days in the court to send people to prison, what profit do you get from that? And are you going to spend some money to build prisons to accommodate the thousands of delinquent customers?
I am, etc.,
FRED ALLEN
Kingston 13
