It’s a simplistic assumption that people in government don’t understand that it is cheaper to maintain and repair existing infrastructure than to have to replace it, as Noel Brown, and others, seem to think is the case.
A better explanation of why Jamaica’s public infrastructure “is crumbling around us”, as Dr Brown put it, is that the country’s governments have, over many years, made bad economic decisions. The upshot: They can now afford neither to maintain nor to replace.
However, Dr Brown, who heads the School of Engineering at the University of Technology (UTech), and others in the sector who commented in this newspaper on the island’s decaying roads, bridges and other public facilities, have, hopefully, ignited a broader discussion on how to fix the problem. For the full article click here
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