WHETHER you voted or not, your member of parliament is there to serve you.

Once you live in the constituency, the MP is your political representative and you have the right to make certain demands of him/her.

Although, quite arguably, some people expect too much from their MPs, in the Jamaican context their roles are unclear, particularly since they have no known job descriptions. Over the next few months, the Sunday Observer will be visiting all 60 constituencies and asking Jamaicans to rate their MPs in our new “We are Jamaicans” series.

Dear Dr Guy,

After lengthy discussions with the people in your constituency, the following four issues emerged as the most pressing:

1. Residents of several communities in the constituency are calling for the dilapidated roads to be fixed.

2. Residents in communities such as Sandside, Esher and Hampstead want to see a community centre and more skills-training opportunities in their communities.

3. Residents in some farming communities in the constituency want you to intervene to make state lands available for lease to farmers.

4. Residents want to see the drains in Port Maria cleaned to prevent flooding of the town during heavy rains.

Yours sincerely,

Ingrid Brown

(Sunday Observer senior staff reporter)

Rate your MP

9/10

WINSTON ‘Boogie’ FAIRWEATHER, BUSINESSMAN, SANDSIDE

He tries his best to help as many people as he can. Only recently him get the drains them clean and him would do a lot more if his party was in power.

8/10

ORVILLE White, CHEF, GRANTS TOWN

I would have given him 10 out of 10 before because of the work him used to do but now he is in opposition and things get tight, so him can’t do as much as him want to.

5/10

EVERTON CAMPBELL, FARMER, TRINITY

Well, him really do some work like fix some of the road and give we water.

10/10

CALVIN BRYAN, FARMER, OLD GROUND

Him try fi develop di place and although me nuh have no good road me see some other parts that have.

3/10

ONEL SMITH, CHEF, HAMPSTEAD

Is just because him is alive why I even give him a grade because him not doing anything for this community.

4/10

BARBARA HENRY, FARMER, ESHER

Him don’t come in the community and see what him can put in place fi help young people. Dem haffi keep going to him.