‘Pop-down’ telecoms wires

The utility companies, Flow and Digicel, must be called to account and made to clean up the mess of wires and contraptions that now hang from almost every wire and pole across Barbados.

In the Sunday Sun dated February 25, Digicel Barbados boasted that “Digicel Barbados has transformed the island’s technological landscape while remaining rooted in the community’s spirit”.

However, let me inform Digicel that you have not only transformed the island’s technological landscape. You have also transformed the physical landscape of Barbados with your unsightly coils and coils of wire on poles all across the island. Some of these coils even have birds nesting in them.

Thanks to the utility companies, the Barbadian landscape has taken on a ‘pop-down’ appearance with these coils and coils of wire and a number of ugly black cylinders, boxes and tennis-shaped contraptions along wires or dangling at the side of poles as seen in the accompanying pictures. This technology resembles technology from the thirties.

What these companies are doing to my beautiful, beautiful Barbados must not be allowed to continue. The appropriate authority must intervene and ask them to clean up this eyesore.

Digicel, in the Sunday Sun Article, also boasted that “customers can expect more from Digicel”. I pray to God that it is not more of the same.

E Jerome Davis