Re: Martin Henry's 'Clean up, fix up, green up' article of Sunday, January 4, I think that we can deal with our urban crime problem, lack of infrastructure and a lack of jobs in one large programme by instituting a rebuild of our major Corporate Area road system. For example, if we decide to widen Marcus Garvey Drive by doubling the width, we would have to buy land on one side, say, the side from the Causeway to Half-Way Tree. We should also build greenhouses and apartments along Spanish Town Road heading towards downtown from the said Marcus Garvey Drive. A competition could be held, worldwide, for the most completely green housing project that encompassed not only green energy such as windmills and solar, but also waste management and water usage.

Self-contained communities

No scheme would contain more than 5,000 people, with every scheme being self-contained and including a clinic, police station and schools. Space would be made for stores that would be sold to merchants.

All this would take place under the umbrella of widening our Kingston and St Andrew Corporation roads in order to increase production. Houses would be sold for minimum profit to stakeholders such as police, soldiers, teachers, nurses, etc, with subsidised housing for people of little means, such as people who live on our gullies or shacks in our inner cities.

I am, etc.,

KWAME GORDON-MARTIN

kjair@hotmail.com