Street lights similiar to these out of service along the Mandela Highway and sections of Highway 2000 - File

AS PART of our mission to be the People Paper, THE WEEKEND STAR has been highlighting problem areas across the island. Our reporter, Carolyn Johnson, along with photographer Norman Grindley, will focus on a particular area until the problem is fixed. Now we will have an idea of how long the relevant authorities take to deal with some of the problems affecting our country.

The mystery of 'Who's responsible for the toll road street lights' has been solved.

After narrowing the list of suspects to the St Catherine Parish Council and Trans-Jamaican Highway Limited, we finally got a response. "Call NROCC" - National Road Operating and Constructing Company. So we called.

Want to guess who is responsible? Wrong. Presently, nobody is responsible for the street lights. Yes, Dem jus deh deh.

"The lights were constructed as part of the highway. However, the developers believe they should be a part of the local network. The developers have not continued to maintain them. It should be a part of the regular street lighting that local authorities pay for," Ivan Anderson, NROCC's chief executive told the WEEKEND STAR. He said that discussions are currently underway with the St Catherine Parish Council to develop an arrangement.

As slack as it maybe, toll road consumers will continue along the darkened path until they hit good ole Mandela Highway. "Drive Carefully." The same goes for motorists who traverse Kew Avenue, St Andrew.

Cooreville Gardens, Free Town "We comin'."