The Poor State Of Planning In Jamaica?

Posted by: Chris Steins

12 September 2006 - 1:00pm

An Op-Ed by the Jamaica Gleaner offers a look into the state of planning in Jamaica.

"With regard to the sorry state of National Heroes Park, we have recently highlighted in these columns the ineptitude of this government in doing the little things, or doing them right.

...The philosophy of this administration, it seems, is that preventative maintenance is bad and that projects are only worthwhile when huge amounts of money are being spent. Then, the throngs can ride the gravy train."

Full Story: Poor state of urban planning

Source: Jamaica Gleaner, September 11, 2006

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For the past half century we have been building communities for the wrong reasons. We built them to sell cars. This created all sorts of problems.

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Read the full article, written by Tim Halbur.