Editor, The Tribune,

Culminating an almost year-long dialogue with my MP Brent Symonette, about the abuse of the Eastern Road, the chickens came home to roost on Friday last. Out to dinner with friends, I had just placed my order when my daughter called to say that someone had posted a Whatsapp message to say that one of my donkeys was seen roaming on Culberts Hill Rd. Shortly after that, I got a call from the father of an Eastern Road neighbour to say that my donkey was now on Eastern Rd.

What should I do? Leave my dinner and go and recover the animal or what? Thinking quickly, I thought “what are children for?’’ So I called my son and asked him to take a piece of rope and just secure the donkey to a tree and I would deal with it when I got home after dinner.

The messages kept coming of course, so I called my son again for a progress report. With frustration in his voice, he said that he had caught the donkey but as he was on his motorbike he was having some difficulty securing it. I then called my daughter and asked her if she would go to help her brother. Not long after that, she called back to say that neighbours Steve and Michelle Stanhope, had stopped to lend a hand and he was fine now.

So, they managed to get an electric drop cord around her neck, as he could not find any rope, and led her to my stable in back of my house. To their great surprise, both of my donkeys were fine and well and in my paddock. Michelle being a horse owner at Camperdown Ranch quickly put two and two together and realised that the straying donkey was none other than “Rosie” owned by Ginny McKinney.

So yes, Eastern Road is still very much a rural neighbourhood and is not very well suited to high volume, fast moving traffic, nor multi-ton commercial delivery vehicles.

BRUCE G. RAINE

Eastern Road, Nassau,

April 21, 2018.