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Aug 15, 2017 Letters
Dear Editor,
It looks like your effort to publish letters on the drainage situation in the City is bearing fruit. As I write this, work began two weeks ago on the Cummings Canal. The blockage at the eastern end of the koker is cleared, and the excavator is working way beyond Albert Street to the east. I am willing to bet that the removal of mud from the Church Street canal is not completed. One can observe mud along the length of the High St canal from Croal Street up to Church Street. .
I visited the Young Street Canal, the one that has been causing Kingston property owners heightened anxiety, due to the ever present high level of water in the drains, especially in the alley-ways. Recall that a deceased engineer attached to the Works Ministry, advised the Minister of Infrastructure that clearing the internal drains of Kingston “would flush” Young Street canal of the accumulated 25 plus 23 years silt that has become solid mud.
The excavation works on Young Street canal is now being carried out by a third contractor. The first contractor operated in 2014; he did not complete the work, but was paid in full.. The second contractor worked just as the Coalition came to office, not much was accomplished by him. That a third contractor is engaged to clear Young St. canal indicates how out of touch the City Council and by extension the Ministry of Infrastructure have become through their inaction. Now it seems from the way the work is being done that this third contractor would accomplish the removal of mud from Young St. canal admirably. We cannot be three times unlucky.
Verily Editor, we would be blessed should those who have power over our City’s drainage system, that they get all the canals cleared of accumulated mud before the yearend rains come. On the matter of the canals south of Sussex Street canal, with the over grown antelope grass thereby blocking drainage, would the City Council be interested in leasing these canals to me. I would harvest the grass to feed a herd of milk cows, providing milk for citizens of the City, and perhaps the milk plant the Minister of Agriculture wishes to buy will now be supplied with vast volume of milk. I can get good fodder grass in the Norton Street, and other Lodge areas.
As for those citizens of Georgetown who live alongside the canals south of Sussex Street, I will settle them as farmers on about two to five acres of land each immediately south of South Ruimveldt, just across the trench. They would be living in the environs of Georgetown, they would really enjoy the good life, we all have been promised, and the green environment would be assured. Of course the National Farmers Organization will be willing to guide and mentor them into becoming full time farmers.
Hafiz Rahman
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