Leaders Are Paid Well To Maintain Law and Order In Jamaica

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Jamaica has 14 parish council authorities. There are 228 parish councillors, and they are responsible for all six functions, including the number 3 shown below. The following are the functions of these authorities taken from the Minister of Local Government and Community Development website.

1. Developing, managing and maintaining infrastructure and public facilities such as parochial roads, minor water supplies, drains and gullies, parks, recreational centres, markets, abattoirs, pounds, cemeteries, transportation centres, public sanitary conveniences and public beaches.
2. Provision of local services such as poor relief, public cleansing, public health and street lighting.
3. Regulatory powers in respect to building and planning approvals and development control, licensing of trades and businesses, street parking, control of public vending.
4. Coordinating inter-agency collaboration among non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (COBs) and government agencies which operate in the parish and are engaged in the delivery of local services or in local development.
5. Support of national policies/development programmes at the local level.
6. Spearhead plans and initiatives for the orderly, balanced and sustainable development of the parish as a whole, and major towns in particular, and for the boosting economic activity and local wealth creation within the parish.

The question is to what extent are the parish councillors approving or providing oversight for these constructions? These constructions end on sidewalks, gully banks, and river banks for example. The Prime Minister has called for citizens to rethink where they build their houses. He did not say what the parish councils are doing about this challenge.

Once again, we pay our leaders well; the least they can do is maintain law and order.

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