Acadia gully threat

With each shower of rain, residents on Acadia Circle, most of them senior citizens, are deluged with an overflow of water into their premises from the gully behind them in Kingston 8, upper St Andrew. They need help and are asking the authorities to deal with this matter on an urgent basis.

- Barbara Cover, bcover@cwjamaica.com

Street garages

For the last four years, residents of Carol Drive, in Vineyard Town, have been inconvenienced by an illegal garage on premises located on Deanery Road, directly opposite the entrance to this cul-de-sac.

Residents have had to endure the overspill of vehicles on to Carol Drive - cars delivered by wreckers, motor vehicle shells supported on blocks, as well as vehicles parked on the drive for months on end, taking up the parking space of residents while the mechanics work on vehicles parked in driveways while the homeowners are away at work.

I'm sure that this is not a practice unique to Vineyard Town. However, it is a cause for grave concern as complaints have been made repeatedly to the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) without result. Can the KSAC please be more aggressive in its investigations of these reports?

- A. Gayle, mizbritish@gmail.com, Via Go-Jamaica

Compulsory education

Now that we have free education, free health care, let us go further with a compulsory education act by this administration. We could find out how the Americans send their children to school and still have them to help on the farms, where applicable. Now is the time to give the third generation since Independence their due!

- Olive L. Chang, 12 Waterloo Avenue, Kingston 10

Searching for ...

Thelma and Olive Davis, formerly of Vineyard Town, are trying to find their old friend Michael Lopez, who worked at Hanna's Wholesale in the '60s-'70s, then later operated Lopez Driving School in the Cross Roads/Constant Spring area. Lopez, or anyone knowing his whereabouts, is kindly asked to make contact by email to either Thelma at Thelma.Hatton@uhl.nhs.uk, or Olive at jimmyd_33177@yahoo.com.

- Grace Brown (on behalf of Thelma & Olive Davis)