Dear Editor,

Before GuyExpo started, residents of Lamaha Gardens in close proximity to the Exhibition Site were sent a letter from the Ministry of Tourism. A number of assurances were given. I will deal with a few of them. Parking, we were assured, would be on site and not in our neighbourhood. Ask the residents if this promise was kept. Tickets would be pre sold, we were told, and the number of patrons attending each night would be limited. Ask the residents if this promise was kept. The music would be “wound down” at 11p.m. Again, ask the residents if this promise was kept. Parapets and trenches, we were assured, would be maintained and cleaned of litter. No need to ask the residents about this one! Just come and check it out for yourself.

Each year we get a letter like this, and each year the promises are broken. It has become abundantly evident that the event has become much too large to manage-especially given that this is a residential area. We want to urge the authorities to relocate GuyExpo to some place where it will not be as horrendously disruptive to ordinary citizens as it has now become.

Yours faithfully,

Melanie Jones