A dismal future lies ahead
published: Tuesday | November 4, 2003

THE EDITOR, Sir:

THE PLIGHT of the residents in the Housing Scheme in Clarendon who had their water disconnected for non-payment and illegal connections is a syndrome of what is happening in our society.

We are pushing the idea and then those who purchase them discover that they cannot pay their mortgages, and cannot afford their utility bills because they have no jobs. This in turn leads them to find some means of support. Some resort to fraud; tempers run high with the pressures to survive and we find an increase in domestic violence.

It is no use promising people houses, cars, cell phones, water, unless the means to support these are there. Facing oppressive taxation, lack of opportunity, corruption, extortion and crime, the future seems bleak for many of our citizens.

I am, etc.,

DOREEN MCLEOD-BRAMWELL