THE EDITOR, Sir:
THE WORD 'hope' for me and many of my fellow Jamaicans in our country seems an illusion. We pay for water that they say is life, yet most times we are deprived of it.
We pay for street lights, we are deprived of it. We pay for education, we are deprived of it. We pay for health care, we are deprived of it. We pay for security, we are deprived of it. We pay that we may have a good and fair justice system, we are deprived of it. We pay for road repair, we get more potholes. We pay politicians to run our country's affairs, what we get in return is corruption.
Where are all our taxes gone? We pay to have our garbage removed, yet it remains the same. We pay for fire engines but none to replace the few old ones.
While Jamaica burns, is there any hope for Jamaica but illusions?
Dear Mr. Percy, are you blind, can you see? Lord have mercy.
I am, etc.,
ROBERT SOLOMON HENRY
Spanish Town
St. Catherine
