This Old House - Not a Jamaican Concept
The first rule of Jamaica is we do not do Maintenance, it is also the second and third rule. On Friday | January 29, 2021 | 12:29 AM The Jamaica Gleaner published a story about the state of an old building being used as a post office since 1950 within a community. "The community of Benbow, situated about one and a half miles from Guy’s Hill, St Catherine, has had a postal agency serving residents of adjoining communities dating back to the early 1950s. The building has fallen into disrepair over the years, and no attempt has been made to improve the facility which serves residents of communities such as Middlesex, Copper, Bonnet and Moreland." The reaction of my country men was mostly predictable. To them the existence of the dilapidated building was an embarrassment, it was an old wooden structure and needed to be replaced with something new, modern, and metropolitan to fit their foreign minded mental state. The first thing that came to my mind was, a nice, lovely quaint