Transport ratesI would like to bring to the attention of the Ministry of Transport and the CEO of the Transport Authority the ridiculous fare schedule that must be clearly visible to all passengers using public transport.
I refer in particular to the contract carriage lincence. It states as follows:
" Rates are for the entire vehicle and not any one seat.Day rate - $30 for up to 12 hourshourly - $7 per hourdistance rate - 50 cents per km.Where a driver is required to wait for more then 2 hours, add $2 per hour."I must presume that this is from the 1970s. Maybe it should be updated!!
What would the driver say if I insisted that I pay the stated amount?
- Wendy Lindo,
Box 2566 Negril
Drug pricesIs the Ministry of Health aware that many poor sick people In St. Thomas have gone to pharmacies to purchase drugs only to be told that those available cost up to 20 times the ones provided for under the National Health Fund programme?
The chronic illnesses provided for under the programme must be well known to the relevant section of the Ministry of Health. Now that they have opened the doors and windows to the wide cross-section of our suffering poor, they should stop feeding one side of our people and starving another. The voices of the people are crying more and more. God is looking down on us and keeping records of such actions.
-J.A. Bailey,
Dalvey P.O., St. Thomas
Working togetherPoliticians need to stop pointing fingers at each other because this will build strife between members of opposing parties and contribute to the division of people within the country. Instead of blaming each other for everything, parties should share ideas and work together in unity as one nation under God for the betterment of the country whether they are in power or not.
- Joannah Earthlight-Hall, jlightearth@yahoo.com
Garvey teachingsThe teachings of Marcus Garvey should be incorporated in the school curriculum by the Ministry of Education. This is a serious issue which Garveyites and other Jamaicans have been calling on the relevant authority over the years to do; but now that the general election is around the corner it would be prudent that politicians from the two major political parties put this matter on their agendas.
I just can't understand why our political leaders find it difficult after 45 years of independence to educate the people on the relevance of the teachings of Garvey that wealth creation and the virtues of capitalism, which is the most productive economic system, are crucial to their economic improvement and development.
- Valentine Pearson, Cornwall Courts, Montego Bay.
