Work being done on the sidewalk on North Street. - Norman Grindley

AS A PART of our mission to be the People Paper, THE STAR has been highlighting problem areas across the island. Our reporter, Carolyn Johnson, along with photographer Norman Grindley, will focus on a particular area until the problem is fixed. Now we will have a rough idea of how long the relevant authorities take to deal with some of the problems affecting our country.

It has been a week since we first reported our newest issue to be repaired. The broken traffic light at the intersection of Spanish Town Road and Industrial Terrace which has been out for more than two months is still causing havoc. However, Stephen Shaw, communications and customer service manager of the National Works Agency, says that they are aware of the problem. He says the real issue is the underground cables and wires which have been extensively damaged. He assured THE STAR that a programme has been implemented within the traffic department that will soon address the problem. We hope that this problem will not be another for THE STAR records.

And the record holder ...

Finally! Four months or 19 weeks after the first problem was featured, a broken section of the sidewalk at the intersection of North Street and Price Lane, some action has been taken. The hole that was stuffed with garbage and fragments of the broken sidewalk has been cleared, replaced with marl and levelled. While the work has obviously not been completed, it is a relief to know that some attention has finally, after four months, been paid to this problem. Still, a concerned member of the community hopes that St. George's College will make holes in the wall by the sidewalk as he claims it is water from the playing field that has undermined the sidewalk. One wonders, however, that had it not been for the impending grand affair of Cricket World Cup, when, if any at all this sidewalk would have been fixed.