Protesting an improvement

THE EDITOR: It would appear that it is becoming increasingly impossible to please these environmentalists or to improve the lot of the majority of people in Trinidad and Tobago. Just imagine, a very narrow tunnel passageway on Saddle Road which for years has been a nightmare for motorists travelling in the area, through which containerised cargo cannot pass and where motorists had to honk their horns to warn approaching vehicles from the other end, is being widened, and we find some Santa Cruz residents protesting this improvement, claiming the loss of a landmark and environmental impact on the removal of the hill, as reported on Page 8 of the Newsday of June 3, 2004.

If our parents and grandparents were like these Santa Cruz environmentalists, we would still be washing clothes by the riverside, reading by candle light, flambeau or kerosene lamps, going to the river with buckets to collect water to cook and bathe, travelling by donkey carts, as building roads and installing telephone and light poles would have been considered as damaging the environment. Congratulations to Mr Franklyn Khan and God Bless the PNM Government for their foresight.

RANDY BROWN
Arima