Beersheba Parochial Road No. 47
Encouraged and fired up by information received on CALLING FARMERS, a 5 minutes radio programme that is heard on RJR 94.5 FM Radio weekdays at 5:15 AM regarding the invaluable contribution that Shawn Baugh, Director of Planning and Evaluation at Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) has been making in improving Parochial Roads in deep rural agricultural communities throughout the island of Jamaica, Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) has written to Mr. Baugh, asking him to intervene and liaise with J. C. Hutchinson, Member of Parliament NW Saint Elizabeth, Councillor Cyril Martin, Member Parish Council, New Market Parochial Division, David Gardner, Secretary Manager Saint Elizabeth Parish Council, and His Worship the Mayor Councillor Everton Fisher, Chairman Saint Elizabeth Parish Council, so as to formulate and implement a strategy to improve existing unsatisfactory gruesome condition on Beersheba/Flint Valley Parochial Road No. 47 and to continue construction of the road from the cul-de-sac at Noel Walker’s premises (deceased) at Flint Valley Tatewood.
In making its appeal to the Director of Planning and Evaluation at RADA, Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) wrote: quote: “In bringing to your attention the existing unsatisfactory gruesome condition of Beersheba/Flint Valley Parochial Road No. 47 with road surfaces that have dangerous craters and potholes that is situated precariously in close proximity to ravines, Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) is respectfully asking you to favourably consider the following in support of representation that the Association has made on behalf of people in the impoverished, poverty stricken, peasant farming Happy Hall, Flint Valley Community:
1. Existing condition of the road from the densely populated agricultural farming districts of Happy Hall to “Rocks Hall” Flint Valley in close proximity to Eugenie “Cherry” Farquharson’s Mom and Pop Grocery Shop, is extremely dangerous to school children, farmers, and other pedestrians who commute on the road daily.
2. The Parochial Road that is heavily used by vehicular traffic and pedestrians is the only access road to the densely populated agricultural districts of Flint Valley that is the bread basket and engine of economic growth for the market at Lewisville, New market, Saint Elizabeth – the largest midweek market in the island of Jamaica.
3. Notwithstanding the availability of state of the art transport and Information Technology (IT) to many farmers in Jamaica in the twenty first century, farmers at Flint Valley and Tatewood have no choice but to carry their farm products as head loads for miles over rocky terrain because tracks that they use to transport their farm products from their fields are not accessible by donkeys.
4. Jamaica Public Service Company Limited electricity is available up to the cul-de-sac on the Parochial Road could be extended to the newly constructed road to improve the quality of life of farmers in Flint Valley and Tatewood as well as to enable them to benefit from technology that would improve productivity on their farms.
5. A strategy should be formulated and implemented to include Beersheba/Flint Valley Parochial Road No. 47 in the National Capital works Programme with funding coming from the European Union, Petro Carebe Fund, Chinese Government, or Inter American Development Bank (IADB), so as to bring heavy duty equipment to remedy the unsatisfactory gruesome condition of the road and to continue construction of the road through prime agricultural lands at Flint Valley to Tatewood, Saint Elizabeth as intended by the late Neville C. Lewis, Member of Parliament, North West Saint Elizabeth and visionary who conceptualized and began work on the project” unquote
Concluding its representation to Shawn Baugh, Director of Planning and Evaluation at Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) wrote quote: “Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) in keeping with its Mission, stands ready as a vibrant and vigilant Stakeholder in the impoverished, poverty stricken, peasant farming New Market Community, to make itself available to be part of any onsite meeting that may be contemplated, so as to provide you and other entities with demographic data and to pass on knowledge about the route that Beersheba/Flint Valley Parochial Road No. 47 will take to Tatewood where it will intersect with the Parochial Road in that Community.” unquote
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