Changes needed in Kingston
Dear Editor,
It’s that time of year when folks are making resolutions with the hope of bringing changes to their lives; be they in regards to health, finances, love or whatever.
There is the expectation of a Cabinet reshuffle; indeed, the prime minister himself has hinted at this.
All eyes are on the national security portfolio, what with seemingly no end in sight to the taming of the crime monster. The education portfolio, among others, may also fall into the reshuffle.
However, I would like to posit that if the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) retains the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) in the upcoming local government elections due next month, Prime Minister Andrew Holness must effect a change to the position of mayor.
Since assuming the role of mayor in 2016, his Worship Delroy Williams, to me, has been a failure.
Going almost seven years now, the city of Kingston has gone to waste (pun intended), earning Mayor Williams the unenviable title of the worse mayor in recent memory. The stench in and around downtown Kingston demands strong stomachs from those who use that area.
Oh, sure, there is the odd photo op of the mayor handing out meals to the homeless; this, while Kingston stifle under mounds of garbage and resident hop over streams of sewage.
Dare we hope for an improvement to the city for 2023, something akin to the 1980s — ironically the Jamaica Labour Party formed the Government then — when downtown was clean and worthy of being the capital of Jamaica, land we love.
DM
Damac@yahoo.com