Look­ing at the TV news Sat­ur­day night on the flood dam­age in the West, I saw where Min­is­ter of Works Jack Warn­er was once again talk­ing about bring­ing laws to pre­vent the in­dis­crim­i­nate cut­ting of the hill­sides. Well it's about time Warn­er stops talk­ing and starts do­ing some­thing about this men­ace which con­tributes to our flood­ing prob­lems.

The min­is­ter al­so in­formed that the wall out­side Coun­try Club in Mar­aval that fell be­cause of the wa­ter, will have to be re­build at a cost of near­ly $1.5 mil­lion. This may very well turn out be the most ex­pen­sive wall in the coun­try. Since the trend right now is for com­mis­sions of en­quiry, it may be an ap­pro­pri­ate time to have one on the con­struc­tion of this wall.

From the pic­tures on both tele­vi­sion and in the press it ap­pears that very lit­tle, if any at all, steel was used in its con­struc­tion, and there seems to have been no ir­ri­ga­tion or weep holes in the wall.Per­haps Afra Ray­mond, who is spend­ing lots of time with the In­vaders Bay is­sue, should ded­i­cate some of his time to the lo­cal con­struc­tion in­dus­try and its stan­dards.

C Pe­ters

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