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Montego Bay needs more focus
published: Thursday | January 17, 2008

The Editor, Sir:

While I am very pleased with the country's infrastrructural develop-ment, thanks to the People's National Party, I now have a strong sense of disappointment with some recent decisions of the new administration.

To be more specific, the new transportation centre in Half-Way Tree is quite pleasing, and so are the other positive improvements on a general scale.

Now that the Government has opened the facility, I hear of a plan (to spend hundreds of millions) on another centre in downtown Kingston, as well as to improve another park in the same area.

I am not against the development of our country but care should be taken as to how fairly resources are distributed throughout the island.

For example, just recently, a plan to do some much-needed work on the Bogue main road in Montego Bay was shelved because of "lack of available resources".

Yet, the entire business arena in the Montego Bay area has been severely affected by the traffic congestion resulting from inade-quate lanes on the Bogue main road.

We, in Montego Bay, are an important part of the Jamaican economy and cannot continue to 'live on the backburner'.

Almost all the head offices for the various companies are found in Kingston so if you wish to conduct certain business transactions you have no option but to go into Kingston. The focus has to change.

I am, etc.,

O'NEIL ARMSTRONG

oneilarmstrong@gmail.com

Gunn's Drive, Granville

St. James

Via Go-Jamaica

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