I have been read­ing the nu­mer­ous sto­ries sur­round­ing the ap­par­ent need to change the PNM can­di­date for POS South in the 2020 elec­tion.

My re­ac­tion is, “So what? Who cares?”

I have been a Wood­brook res­i­dent for al­most 40 years and over the decades have seen this won­der­ful res­i­den­tial neigh­bour­hood trans­formed in­to a shame­ful par­o­dy of it­self due to lack of prop­er rep­re­sen­ta­tion.

The last time my street was paved was for the 1986 elec­tions—al­though it is one of the few up streets branch­ing off from Wright­son Road.

The pave­ments have large bro­ken, pock­marked holes over­grown with weeds most times of the year—ex­cept for the cou­ple times that some­one in charge re­mem­bers to send CEPEP to use cut­lass­es and break out even more of the porous con­crete in their haste to fin­ish and go home.

The roads are like a mine­field, lit­tered with pot­holes and deep chasms that swal­low pass­ing car tyres. The drains are sel­dom cleaned and rub­bish put out by eater­ies (and bust­ed open by roam­ing va­grants) along Ari­api­ta Av­enue flow freely down with the rush­ing wa­ter from bro­ken WASA mains along the streets. They col­lect in the storm drains and pro­vide great sus­te­nance for the large rats that vis­it from Flour Mills across the road.

I have writ­ten count­less let­ters to the City Cor­po­ra­tion for their help in hav­ing these prob­lems rec­ti­fied but to no avail. I have ceased writ­ing to my par­lia­men­tary rep­re­sen­ta­tive or coun­cilors since they don’t even both­er to vis­it the area—even to can­vas for votes at elec­tion time—they know POS South is in the bag for the PNM.

So what’s the big fuss about hav­ing some­one to rep­re­sent the area for 2020-2025? We’ll just con­tin­ue to pay them their salary so that they can show up in the cham­ber to vote on the side of the Gov­ern­ment—they sel­dom do any­thing else. At least for my area.

Dr Z Ni­ma

Wood­brook

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