EDITOR, The Tribune.

Kindly allow me space in your column to express an opinion on the deterioration of the community of Centreville and the quality of some of the illegal migrants in the area, especially Mount Royal Avenue and its side corners and Mount Rose Avenue and its side corners.

I grew up in Centreville. So I think I am overly qualified to comment on the deterioration. Once upon a time when you said, I am from Centreville, people would take notice. Quality individuals resided and rose out of the community, including Prime Ministers, doctors, lawyers, bankers, athletes, teachers, accountants, among other professions, hard working regular men and women who commanded respect and carried themselves with dignity and poise and grace.

I have maintained an office in the community for the past 27 years, but God knows I have never seen it like this. Instead we have been overwhelmed with a mixture of crimes, including murder, break-ins, robberies, a whore-house conducting business where the entrance to the corner is almost always blocked up for the residents living through the corner. It appears as if a large crowd of degenerates have popped up in the last two decades in the community. In my opinion the quality of many of the residents has sadly sunk to the bottom of the barrel.

In closing, decades ago when we should have nipped this in the bud we turned a blind eye. Now the chicken is coming home to roost.

PAT STRACHAN

Nassau,

January 20, 2024.