The Editor, Sir:
I have sent the following letter to Mr. Charles Matthews, president and chief executive officer of the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited:
Dear Mr. Matthews:
I write in haste in an attempt to complete this ahead of the fourth power cut today (February 6, 2005). Despite several reports to the JPS regarding the frequency of intermittent power cuts we have been experiencing in Acadia, it continues unabated. It is just gone 12 noon, and we have already had three today: the first at 8:25, the second at 9:34, and the third on the stroke of noon.
This has been the pattern for the past several months, and as sure as night follows day, the fourth of the day will not be long in coming. We have recently had as many as seven power cuts in a single day. I exhaust myself simply resetting my bedside radio-clock; I dread switching on the computer; the refrigerator labours valiantly against overwhelming odds, (there are increasing signs that it is fast losing the battle); and an uninterrupted television programme has long ceased to be the norm. Our neighbours all have a litany of complaints regarding the damage being caused to their household electrical appliances, and the 'service' offered by your company, certainly in this neighbourhood, is regarded, to put it at its kindest, risible.
On February 18, 2004, just shy of a year ago, again on March 10, and most recently on September 29, I wrote to you about my concern regarding one of your poles located at the intersection of Roseberry Drive and Trenton Avenue. I pointed out that it was acutely poised and posed a threat. The cables have been stripped from the pole for some time, but the pole and the threat remain. May I ask you yet again, please to arrange for its removal.
I am, etc.,
TREVOR RHONE
tcrhone@hotmail
14 Trenton Avenue
Kingston 8
