The Editor, Sir:

The letter in The Gleaner regarding road conditions on the highway being built in Portland is true.

I went to Portland last Monday. The road between Annotto Bay and Buff Bay is a disgrace. Having driven there last year September, it is now much worse. One would have thought that some amount of progress would have been achieved seven months later.

The road condition is not just bad for your car; those persons living close to the construction survive in a dust bowl. Many of the houses I saw had tarpaulin-like material covering the front of them. The conditions are not just inhumane and barbaric, but an assault on the existence of the residents.

Interestingly, I saw very few persons working on the road, there seemed to have been more flagmen than those doing actual construction.

The Government needs to have a closer look at that project and give some ultimatum in terms of having the project completed in short order as well as under humane conditions.

I am, etc.,

G. WHYTE

gaawhyte@yahoo.com

47 Old Hope Road

Kingston 5

Via Go-Jamaica