THE EDITOR, Sir:
THIS AN open letter to Mrs. Portia Simpson Miller and Mr. Robert Pickersgill, Honourable Ministers of Government:
Dear Ministers:
For the past 24 years I've been living at this location. There are five families all together. The place is called Campbell Pen in Morris Hall, 3 miles south of Rock River, Clarendon.
It's about 10 or so chains off the main road above the Garden Wood Crossing. For all this period we're living in darkness, because of the lack of electricity.
Several years ago we made application to the Rural Electrification Authority without success. I even went there in person on March 11, 2002 while they were stringing some houses in the area and still they never came to my house.
Honourable Ministers, we are appealing to you to do something for us, so that we will be able to get electricity soon.
I'm now on 75 but may not be able to sneak one through the slips, because of bad light. We're worried as it is a wooded area and in the darkness we're at anyone's mercy.
The road in the location needs to be taken over by the Local Government Ministry so that it can be maintained, so we won't pitch and toss on the round stones in the darkness.
We also need water, because the nearest standpipe is about 1/2 mile away, and when the water is low we have travelled about 2 miles to the spring where the NWC installation is located.
So you see we would be very grateful to be blessed with the luxury of some (basic) water electricity and a little better road. After all our taxes have moved up from $50 to $600. I think we deserve some benefit from the taxation we are burdened with.
I am, etc.,
AMOS WALKER
Morris Hall
Clarendon
