Several communities in the East Rural St Andrew division have been neglected for many years. Communities from Content to St. Peters and beyond have suffered from the hands of negligence and some blatant incompetence. There have been little or no development for years.

If you think the days of standing for hours to get a bus are over, think again. Or if you think the days of driving in open-back vans, or climbing on trucks to get home, some 14 miles or more from civility, are behind us, think again.

But as bad as that seem, it is not the biggest problem. With very few buses available, the communities are at the mercy of the drivers.

Regularise bus system

They park the buses, for lengthy periods, and go to the bars to have a drink with their friends. In cases when there is a beach trip or a wedding, you know for sure there will be no bus and if the driver chooses to go overseas, that bus will be parked until he returns.

The MP for this area seems to be in a glass bubble and, to be frank, his office and the rest of us are at the mercy of bus drivers who decide to run the buses when and how they feel like.

The people in our communities are taxpayers like everybody else and deserve more. The bus system needs to be regularised and some proper arrangement put in place.

These residents are not asking for a miracle, nor some genius MP. What the communities now ask is that a reliable bus system is implemented for the benefit of residents once and for all.

I am, etc.,

Kadia Baugh

kadiabaugh@hotmail.com