Jamaica lack public facilities throughout the Island, people from abroad are used to public facilities when they leave their homes. For a country that sells so much food it’s amazing there are so few WC for the public and tourists to be accommodated.
The problem will get worse (as the resort communities grow exponentially) all because Jamaica's politicians in Kingston refuse to give real fiscal and technical/administrative power to the parish councils. This process could be made more spatially potent/streamlined via cost-effective regional county councils. Central government is ducking the real issue of the need to comprehensively DECENTRALIZE/DECOLONIZE local government away from the Kingston centric ministry of local government (along with those host of unnecessary national agencies Luke TEF) that rob the resource starved municipal corporations of much need capital/expertise for grassroots control and planning.
Is it the open drainage system (typical in old Georgian towns) that the foul odour is emanating or is it from people relieving themselves in the streets 👀⁉️ If it’s the latter that would be beyond disgraceful & disappointing 🤦🏽♂️
@@garfieldwhittaker944 yes indeed as wetlands aka mangroves are all around and that ecosystem do emit strong and lingering swamp gasses. However, the mayor made no reference to that at all listening to the text of his speech in his appeal to the public. In fact he alluded to insanitary practices as the main source of the problem which is very surprising to say the least
@@donnovanBwilson the mangroves do make sanitation more of a challenge. This is why we need (FEDERALIZED) bottom-up local government from the counties and not (UNITARY) top-down from Kingston (which is a legacy of colonialism). Miami has similar issues being next to the Everglades wetlands/swamp...but has the fiscal and technical administrative muscle to directly/quickly mitigate a range of negative impacts towards making that metro area more tourism resilient. To this end, a fiscally and technically empowered Cornwall regional county council (run by a supervisory board of municipal/parish mayoral commissioners---as is done in Dade and Los Angeles counties in the USA) would be directly empowered to use county based urban/land use/environmental planners to find CREATIVE ways to mitigate sanitation problems (in collaboration with central government). Jamaica needs to modernize its archaic 19th century colonial era designed local government bureaucracy that is excessively centered on Kingston's ministries and spatially dysfunctional national agencies (like the Tourism Enhancement Fund that robbs criticalfiscal funds from local government entities like the municipal corporations).
You say "surprised". I say "disgusting". I thought the foul odour was as a result of broken sewage lines or something of that nature, but it seems to be a result of people using the streets, and sidewalks etc. as urinals and God knows what else.
Every porish should have a department that maintain the road
Yep
Jamaica lack public facilities throughout the Island, people from abroad are used to public facilities when they leave their homes. For a country that sells so much food it’s amazing there are so few WC for the public and tourists to be accommodated.
Very interesting
Parts of the town is below sea level. A sewage system is needed
Sir Falmouth is not the only major town between Montego Bay and Ocho Rios. Saint Ann's Bay is a major town likewise...🤔
Foul smell is dime a dozen in Jamaica. Downtown Kingston is perpetually foul and grimy.
Sad
Was there last week
Nice
The problem will get worse (as the resort communities grow exponentially) all because Jamaica's politicians in Kingston refuse to give real fiscal and technical/administrative power to the parish councils. This process could be made more spatially potent/streamlined via cost-effective regional county councils.
Central government is ducking the real issue of the need to comprehensively DECENTRALIZE/DECOLONIZE local government away from the Kingston centric ministry of local government (along with those host of unnecessary national agencies Luke TEF) that rob the resource starved municipal corporations of much need capital/expertise for grassroots control and planning.
Is it the open drainage system (typical in old Georgian towns) that the foul odour is emanating or is it from people relieving themselves in the streets 👀⁉️ If it’s the latter that would be beyond disgraceful & disappointing 🤦🏽♂️
I am very surprized.
Falmouth is built on a swamp/marshland and is low lying with poor drainage...therein lies a major geographical problem...especially when it rains...
@@garfieldwhittaker944 yes indeed as wetlands aka mangroves are all around and that ecosystem do emit strong and lingering swamp gasses. However, the mayor made no reference to that at all listening to the text of his speech in his appeal to the public. In fact he alluded to insanitary practices as the main source of the problem which is very surprising to say the least
@@donnovanBwilson the mangroves do make sanitation more of a challenge. This is why we need (FEDERALIZED) bottom-up local government from the counties and not (UNITARY) top-down from Kingston (which is a legacy of colonialism). Miami has similar issues being next to the Everglades wetlands/swamp...but has the fiscal and technical administrative muscle to directly/quickly mitigate a range of negative impacts towards making that metro area more tourism resilient. To this end, a fiscally and technically empowered Cornwall regional county council (run by a supervisory board of municipal/parish mayoral commissioners---as is done in Dade and Los Angeles counties in the USA) would be directly empowered to use county based urban/land use/environmental planners to find CREATIVE ways to mitigate sanitation problems (in collaboration with central government).
Jamaica needs to modernize its archaic 19th century colonial era designed local government bureaucracy that is excessively centered on Kingston's ministries and spatially dysfunctional national agencies (like the Tourism Enhancement Fund that robbs criticalfiscal funds from local government entities like the municipal corporations).
@@garfieldwhittaker944 💯% Amen 🙏🏽 to that
You say "surprised". I say "disgusting". I thought the foul odour was as a result of broken sewage lines or something of that nature, but it seems to be a result of people using the streets, and sidewalks etc. as urinals and God knows what else.