No lights to see mail boxes @ Road Town Post Office
For the past year plus, the lights directly over the mail boxes have not been working, therefore it denies the public with mail boxes in that area from getting to their letter boxes, along with creating a security risk.
Lack of lights a security concern
The security risk is posed because of the dark area at the Road Town Post Office. There is an adjacent area where other letter boxes are located where one can hide out if they wished to commit a crime.
Up to last night, March 8, 2015 our news room paid a visit to the old Post Office located across from the Sir Oliver Georges Plaza but the unfortunate situation remains the same. While it appears that some lights were replaced in the hallway leading to the mail boxes they are not enough to allow the many mail box customers to see their mail boxes due to severe darkness because of lack of working lights.
It is this news site’s understanding that many complaints have been lodged with Post Office Personnel along with the Ministry of Finance, under whose profile the Postal Services falls.
It also remains unclear why for almost a year the Government of the day has not addressed this vexing dilemma.
Officials contacted
Post Master General Ms Pascha ‘Pinky’ Stoutt, when contacted by Virgin Islands News Online, claimed she was “not allowed to speak to the media”.
However, Financial Secretary Mr Neil M. Smith said he was not aware of the lights situation at the post office but promised to have the situation addressed tomorrow, March 10, 2015.
Many critics of the NDP Administration claim that this is yet another example of where the Government is not paying attention to the small things that affect the ordinary residents, as they were amazed to learn how long this problem has existed.
One senior civil servant who spoke to our news room, on condition of anonymity, said “I am sure over the past year at least one or two elected officials would have gone there in the night to check their mail box and would have observed the lack of lights to see to check one’s mail box…but it shows they do not care about us.”
The officer, who said she has one more year before retirement, decries the situation saying “it’s a crying shame that they cannot even change a light bulb.”
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29 Responses to “No lights to see mail boxes @ Road Town Post Office”
In 2015. Why the head of a department cannot speak to the media? Something is wrong with that in a so-called Democratic society IMO. That needs fixing like yesterday.
The minister is responsible for cancelled trips to STT, now they must go change light bulbs. Might as well the NDP fire all department heads and run everything themselves
I wonder if some of you who come on this site to blog went to school in August...Talk about nonsense and senseless comments...strupppssss
Moreover, providing lighting is a simple facility management requirement. Assuming that the light fixture are working, it is a simple matter of relamping. If the fixtures are not operational, fix them.
Them say P.... not running no show, the island girl say is she running things the Tolians not ready is Island people know the work not the locals. What ever island say P....y have to do or else, ting to talk.
A blind Mice could see that is the L.... girl running the show. My friend working there tell me she has more ranks than the deputy. Ting to talk I tell you when it comes to BVIPOST smh.