POLICE, MUNICIPAL CORPORATION CRITICIZED
(Letter to the Editor, Jan. 26, 2026)
On Friday, January 23, the North Coast Times published an article stating that police were clearing illegal vendors off the streets of Brown’s Town, St Ann. POLICE CLEAR BROWN’S TOWN STREETS OF ILLEGAL VENDING
That alone will not make Brown’s Town an attractive place to do business or even visit. The town needs a makeover or to be moved. Anyway, people know that this action will only last for a week or two, and then everything goes back to chaos.
Brown’s Town needs the police and the Parish Council (SAMC) to enforce the laws and bring order and cleanliness to the town.
(Top Road, what right do merchants have to put out cones preventing parking for hours at a time?)
The police can always go after the small vendors, but what about those with big stores on Top Road and Main Street, especially before the market, who prevent regular motorists from parking on the public street? For months now, these merchants, some of them non-Jamaicans, put up road cones, signs, and objects on the public roadway, preventing parking except for those using their stores. I know complaints have been made to the Brown’s Town police, but nothing has been done. I hope SSP Carlos Russel, who is in charge of St Ann police and is from the area will do something about it.
(Where are the police? Do merchants have the right to just put up ‘No Parking’ signs on the public roadway? Note, in the background, tarpaulin is helping to cover the market.)
Brown’s Town needs major redevelopment and even a relocation of the market, which is in a disgraceful condition, and that causes congestion in the little town.
Davion Daley
Standfast Brown’s Town
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