The Editor, Sir:

The town of Falmouth will soon have a new police station, a new fire station and the General Hospital is being extensively renovated. Yet the Trelawny Parish Library remains untouched.

Trelawny is in urgent need of a proper parish library. Why is it that the educational needs of Trelawny are always placed on the backburner? How much longer will the Trelawny Parish Library be allowed to operate in insufficient space?

We usually build libraries with the expectation that they will grow and develop. Clearly the persons responsible for the erection of the Trelawny Parish Library did not imagine that the institution would grow and develop.

I would like a representative from the Jamaica Library Service, and the Ministry of Education to pay the Trelawny Parish Library an unannounced visit one evening or weekend and report their findings to the Minister of Education or the CEO of the Library Service. I'm sure that none of the persons would be happy with the reports.

The hard-working attendants at the Trelawny Parish Library are helpless. They need much more space in order to operate the library properly. At present the library mainly serves as an uncontrolled homework centre.

The people of Falmouth and Trelawny are grateful for the economic development taking place in the town of Falmouth and other developments concerning certain basic amenities, but they need to see an expansion and a much more equipped library in the very near future.

I am, etc.,

HUGH ANDERSON BLAIR

Falmouth, Trelawny