The Editor, Sir:

I agree with the views of The Gleaner regarding the clean-up of Half-Way Tree. It should be noted, and acted on, by the mayors and authorities of all other parishes with the same vigour in cleaning up their local towns.

This problem is widespread through all Jamaican towns and cities. Vendors on sidewalks and in the streets, vehicular traffic and taxis and buses parked and stopping anywhere without regard for other road users, especially the physically challenged.

Ordeal

Shacks on sidewalks, in markets or on the streets flout the laws of the country and destroying the beauty of Jamaican towns.

To access some supermarkets, shops and stores is now an ordeal, getting past vendors who now set up businesses on shopfront pavements.

Proprietors of legitimate businesses seem to be powerless or in fear of ridding their shopfronts of illegal vendors.

Jamaican towns have now become a forest of illegal stationary street vendors. The authorities must take appropriate action now to normalise our towns and thoroughfares again.

I am, etc.,

LES FRANCIS

ashfran2@yahoo.com

Mandeville

Via Go-Jamaica