The Editor, Sir:

I am puzzled by the article 'Politics not going uptown', written by Mark Beckford and published in The Gleaner on July 25. While it is true that no political billboards assault the eyes in uptown areas, many of these areas have become bases for billboards advertising upscale housing developments and signs directing us to the next dancehall venue.

Norbrook Road, for example, is the site for huge and ugly billboards extolling the virtues of condo living in the hills above Norbrook. Upon contacting the Kingston and St. Andrew Corpora-tion (KSAC), I was advised that these developers were given exemptions by the KSAC to erect these eyesores.

One is left to wonder, what could have caused the officials of the KSAc to flout their own regulations?

I am, etc.,

R.OSCAR LOFTERS

Kingston 8

Via Go-Jamaica

Lofters1@aol.com