AS PART OF our mission to be the People Paper, THE WEEKEND 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. We will then have a rough idea of how long the relevant authorities take to deal with some of the problems affecting our country.

Today marks the third week we have been featuring Haughton Terrace, Haughton Avenue and Garelli Avenue, off Trafalgar Road in New Kingston.

Two weeks ago we contacted Errol Greene, town clerk at the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation. He told us he was unaware of the deplorable state of the adjoining avenues.

We do hope they have logged our complaint, as the roads seem to deteriorate daily. At one section of Haughton Terrace the pothole is so wide the road actually splits.

That section of the road is so bad it reminds me of something a popular artiste once said: "Life is like Jamaican road, you haffi choose which pothole fi drop into". Indeed the saying holds true on Haughton Terrace.