Falmouth Mayor Willing To Pay Political Price To Restore Law And Order

November 23, 2012 in Falmouth News, Trelawny Parish Council by Postmaster

Falmouth Mayor, Garth Wilkinson, speaking at a Falmouth Town Hall meeting yesterday, said he is willing to pay a political price in order to restore law and order to Falmouth, which will result in increased revenue for the Trelawny Parish Council, of which he is the head. The Mayor started his long list of intentions in response to a question from Mr Reynolds of Reynolds’s Funeral Home. Mr. Reynolds was bemoaning the chasing of market vendors off the streets by the police. Mayor Wilkinson responded by telling the citizens that it will get worse as the Trelawny Parish Council was adamant
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Problems Getting Commuters and Drivers To Use The Falmouth Bus Park

June 24, 2012 in Transportation by Postmaster

Problems Getting Commuters and Drivers To Use The Falmouth Bus Park There is an on-going transportation problem in Falmouth caused primarily by the failure of the Trelawny Parish Council to provide a proper bus park for the town. It is a major headache to get both commuters and drivers (bus and taxi) to use the makeshift bus park on Tharp Street (the former location of Dump Squatter settlement which was previously demolished). When we visited the facility and spoke with drivers, they pointed to 3 main problems: 1) Sanitary facilities are a work in progress, not yet complete. 2) The
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The Temporary Falmouth Bus Park – No Shelter For the Rainy Month?

May 3, 2011 in Development by Postmaster

It is May, which along with the rainier October and November are the three rainy months in Falmouth, Jamaica. With all the development taking place, I have to wonder what is going to happen to commuters who have to walk to the temporary taxi and bus park and stand and wait for their public passenger vehicle without any shelter. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ The weather in Falmouth promises heavy showers for this month, which contributes to making May ”crab month.’ The earth is usually so saturated from the rain, that crabs’ holes are water logged and they are forced to spend extended time
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The Benefits of Falmouth Development: Poor Roads and a Sub-Standard Bus Park

March 8, 2011 in Falmouth News by Postmaster

__________________________________________________________________________ In a previous article, Politics Over-Shadowing Historic Falmouth Port, I lashed those idolizing the politicians involved in the Falmouth Pier Development on the grounds that politicians have done us so much injustice over the years, singing their praises for one job completed is absolutely playing into their hands. They treat us like second class citizens and dish us dirt for years and suddenly we forget that, chanting their names as if they are heroes because a pier that should have been completed months before, was finally

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