Dear Editor,
In light of the recent bus fare increase on the heels of back-to-school shopping by parents who are forking out thousands for school supplies, Government workers enduring a salary freeze, and retired citizens barely living on their pensions after working hard to make their contribution to our country, I would like to drop my own two cents in the mix.
The increase is not only absurd but not practical. To ask the same people who were already instructed to tighten their belts to suffer is unreasonable. Further, all this caused by the Jamaica Urban Transit Company not operating efficiently and effectively. They need to go back to the drawing board as an increase in fares will not stop the waste but temporarily patch a gap until.
Noting the peaceful march being organised against the increase I have to inquire who will march for the senior citizens in the rural parts of this country who have to find $200, in some cases, to take the regular taxis and buses. Is it any less stressful for those who retired in the Corporate Area? What is it that we as a nation can do for them? Parents in these rural communities are also faced with these prices to send their children to school.
We must be fair when protesting. This is not only affecting one set of citizens in Jamaica. There are schoolchildren, senior citizens, government workers, and other workers all over Jamaica. The only difference is that the JUTC does not offer services to them. They too have a cry, they too need help. They too need to be represented. It is not only about those who live under the bright lights of Half-Way-Tree.
Dee Hunt
bedeeinspired@gmail.com
How fair is the fare across Jamaica?
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In light of the recent bus fare increase on the heels of back-to-school shopping by parents who are forking out thousands for school supplies, Government workers enduring a salary freeze, and retired citizens barely living on their pensions after working hard to make their contribution to our country, I would like to drop my own two cents in the mix.
The increase is not only absurd but not practical. To ask the same people who were already instructed to tighten their belts to suffer is unreasonable. Further, all this caused by the Jamaica Urban Transit Company not operating efficiently and effectively. They need to go back to the drawing board as an increase in fares will not stop the waste but temporarily patch a gap until.
Noting the peaceful march being organised against the increase I have to inquire who will march for the senior citizens in the rural parts of this country who have to find $200, in some cases, to take the regular taxis and buses. Is it any less stressful for those who retired in the Corporate Area? What is it that we as a nation can do for them? Parents in these rural communities are also faced with these prices to send their children to school.
We must be fair when protesting. This is not only affecting one set of citizens in Jamaica. There are schoolchildren, senior citizens, government workers, and other workers all over Jamaica. The only difference is that the JUTC does not offer services to them. They too have a cry, they too need help. They too need to be represented. It is not only about those who live under the bright lights of Half-Way-Tree.
Dee Hunt
bedeeinspired@gmail.com
How fair is the fare across Jamaica?
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