{"id":2096,"date":"2019-01-28T20:11:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T20:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2019-01-28T20:11:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T20:11:19","slug":"dangerous-nuisance-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2096","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous nuisance in the city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Clinton Pickering <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 Freelance Writer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

E<\/strong>fforts by the\nSt James Municipal Corporation to rid the city of Montego Bay of several\nabandoned and unsightly buildings, are proving frustrating.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under Section 4 of the Town Nuisance Prevention Act, there\nare eleven buildings in the city that have been certified by the Superintendent\nto be so dilapidated, they were \u201cconsidered a danger to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list includes premises at the old Vassell building, 3 Albion Lane, 8 Hart Street, registered to Transworld Traders Int. Ltd.; 36 Barnet View Gardens, registered to Adella Johnson, et al; one on Barracks Road, registered to Percival Wilson. On Market Street, 33 which is registered to Luiton Lewin; 50, registered to George Downer and 52, registered to Derrick McLeod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The old Vassell building at Albion Lane, once the place of choice for poor Montegonians shopping wholesale, now a nuisance in the city. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The others are: 8 Queen\u2019s Street, registered to Marion\nJames, et al; 8 Queen\u2019s Drive, registered to Fred Smith; 18, Thompson Street,\nregistered to Ivy Craig and 42 Union Street, registered to West Indies Union of\nSDA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The required resolution for notices to be served on the\nparties to abate \u201cthis nuisance\u201d was passed several months ago, stating that\n\u201cthe Superintendent has declared these lands or buildings to be dangerous to\nthe public, neighbours or to persons who may enter or to adjoining buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, in recent months, the Corporation\u2019s desire to see\nthe declared nuisance abated has had to be tempered. They have been in court\nfor months for \u201ca Conditional Order to abate or give the Council (Corporation)\nauthority to dispose of these properties\u201d but at each succeeding meeting, the\nCorporation has been hearing that here has been no further update and they were\nstill in the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayor of Montego Bay and Chairman of the Corporation,\nCouncillor Homer Davis, is anxious to have the problem addressed. He\nquestioned, \u201cWhat are we doing about those buildings? Tell me, we don\u2019t have\nthe authority? I don\u2019t think we should have these buildings giving a bad image\nto the city.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other councillors agreed with him, stressing that, \u201cThey are\na clear and present danger\u201d and should be removed forthwith. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Richard Vernon, in whose division some of the\nderelict structures are to be found, expressed the view that, \u201cOftentimes, we do\ntry to get things done (but), we try through the wrong channels; we are backed\nby many Acts that give us the authority to carry out certain activities, so in\nthis case, we don\u2019t need any lawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under Section 4 of the Town Nuisance Prevention Act, there are eleven buildings in the city that have been certified by the Superintendent to be so dilapidated, they were \u201cconsidered a danger to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1094,1093,770,652,207,1092],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-councillor-homer-davis","tag-dilapidated-building","tag-market-street","tag-mayor","tag-st-james-municipal-corporation","tag-town-nuisance-prevention-act"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}