If Gov­ern­ment does not act swift­ly to curb the flood of busi­ness­es op­er­at­ing in res­i­den­tial ar­eas through­out T&T we will all be in court fight­ing for our rights to en­joy­ment of prop­er­ty like the res­i­dents of Wood­brook are now do­ing. Imag­ine we have to fight for peace and qui­et in our own homes, that we have sac­ri­ficed and paid for, over many years!Some of us specif­i­cal­ly chose our lot due to the non-main road ac­cess, for the sole rea­son that there would not be ve­hic­u­lar traf­fic all day.

Peo­ple buy and sell prop­er­ties and un­der the pre­text that they are pur­chas­ing for a res­i­dence, then lo and be­hold they are run­ning a busi­ness, with vans and 4x4 ve­hi­cles trav­el­ling up and down, all day long, Mon­day to Fri­day and some­times on Sat­ur­day.This pos­es risks for res­i­dents, due to the con­stant traf­fic of peo­ple un­known to the res­i­dents, some of whom have been there for over 30 years.

To add in­sult to in­jury there is the risk of bur­glars who feel that there is mon­ey on the premis­es and there­fore they can take a chance and en­ter with guns blaz­ing, putting res­i­dents in dan­ger.I am plead­ing with the min­is­ter re­spon­si­ble to do some­thing and en­force the law be­fore we all be­come like Wood­brook.We have a right to en­joy our prop­er­ty with­out be­ing bom­bard­ed with ve­hic­u­lar traf­fic and strangers in our neigh­bour­hood.

Busi­ness­es should be in com­mer­cial ar­eas and not in res­i­den­tial.The small par­lour and doc­tor's of­fice are the ex­cep­tions as these are es­sen­tial in re­mote ar­eas, but the es­tab­lished com­pa­nies/bars etc, should not be al­lowed to in­vade res­i­den­tial com­mu­ni­ties.Is it that the law­less are run­ning this coun­try, and are hold­ing the rest of the law abid­ing cit­i­zens to ran­som? Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, you promised us a change, where is it?

C Thom­son,

San­ta Rosa Heights,

Ari­ma