Local Government neglecting duties
published: Tuesday | July 18, 2006

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I SEEM to recall that there was a time when the Local Government Authorities would proactively take action, in their capacity as the Local Board of Health to bush overgrown lots when delinquent owners fail to act. Thereafter, they ensured recovery of the amount expended by lodging caveats against the respective titles.

Today, these overgrown lots which spawn rodents and other nuisances, as well as become the haunts of criminals, are left to mushroom into full blown woodlands, without intervention from any quarters. Does this imply that the law which previously empowered the authorities to act has been repealed.

It is becoming increasingly clear that some vital functions which are indispensable to sustaining a civilised quality of life, are being woefully neglected. As a citizen whose family's health and safety could be jeopardised by the presence of a few of these new found woodlands, adjacent to my holding at Bengal, Queens Highway, St. Ann, I urge a return to the practice of previous years.

I am, etc.,

WILTON F. SOLOMON

Bengal

Discovery Bay