Thank you, JPSCo
On Friday night May 11 at about 9:00 p.m. it was brought to my attention that there was a freak storm in the areas of Cowick Park and Glasgow causing damage to some houses and crops.
Electricity was disrupted in Golden Run, Cowick Park, Glasgow, Auchtembeddie and Oxford. I journeyed over in the night to make an initial assessment after which I called the JPSCo emergency number and reported the damage.
At 6:00 a.m. Saturday I made a follow-up call and was politely informed an initial assessment was done but because of the magnitude of the damage, their emergency team would take action later that day. I am pleased to state that by 1:00 p.m. the electricity supply was fully restored.
To JPSCo I say a big 'thank you' on behalf of the citizens of Golden Run, Cowick Park, Glasgow, Auchtembeddie, Oxford and also our Member of Parliament Dean Peart and myself. We say thank you for a job well done and are heartened that the JPSCo emergency response team was just a phone call away. Good show.
- Fairbourne Maxwell,valleyview2020@yahoo.com, Councillor, Mile Gully Division
Students and learningOn reading the letter to the editor entitled 'Can students be forced to learn?' by B. Thompson-Dunkley on May 21, I thought I must add my views on this question which I consider on a daily basis.
I believe that if the child has even the slightest interest to learn, then he will. But from my observations, it seems that most children who don't learn, have no zeal, nothirst for knowledge. I've often remarked to my colleagues that some children just have no focus.
They are simply going through the motions of dressing in a uniform and finding themselves in the institution in which they are registered. Clearly not for the real business of learning. It is ironic though, that in an age where information and knowledge abound and is easily accessible, there is no passion for learning on the part of some of our children. So the question remains, how do we impress upon them the importance of learning?
- Sharon McIntosh, smcintosh@gmail.com, Spanish Town, St. Catherine.
View of RastafariDr. Wendel Abel's article: 'When your child becomes a Rasta', published in The Gleaner of May 16, 2007, certainly seems to have missed the point of the Rastafari movement.
Wasn't it the Rastafari movement that initiated the call for reparation which, interestingly, has somehow now found its way on the agenda of our politicians? Perhaps Dr. Abel needs to read Peter Espeut's article: 'Europe, Africa, Jamaica (Part III)', which was published in the same edition of The Gleaner, in order to broaden his parochial view of Rastafari. One Love.
- Elizabeth Williams, St. Andrew.
