The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

IF I might use your columns to ask whomever the cap fits to wear it. Minister of Heath, the Hon Dr Duane Sands or Dr Charles Diggiss, President of Doctors Hospital.

Starting at East Street and Shirley Street and going west, we have Zion Baptist Church, a little further on at Frederick Street, we have Trinity Methodist Church, and further up Princes Street, my Church, St Andrews Presbyterian Kirk. A bit further on at George Street, The Anglican Cathedral, and just a bit further along on West Street, we have the Greek Orthodox Church and St Francis Xavier Cathedral. Six churches perhaps within a mile of each other.

All of these churches have Sunday services and the morning services tend to start around 11:00am. The Kirk starts a half hour before this at 10:30am. The Kirk is typically starting to “Hear the word of God Preached” at 11:00am and no doubt the other 11:00am services are in prayer, or singing praises to God, as they begin their services.

It is now a ritual at the Kirk, that the Minister commences the Sermon a moment or two before 11:00, and then as if on queue, the Siren Starts and as it gets closer and closer to Frederick and Princes Street the Minister yields, and declares to the Congregation “It must be 11:00 o’clock”. A minute or so later, the Ambulance has passed and he can refocus and continue with the message.

As the congregations are inside all of these Churches by 11:00am, it is unlikely that anyone can see which Ambulance it is, that is in such a hurry every Sunday morning exactly at 11:00. Is it PHA, or is it Doctors Hospital. I have my suspicions but perhaps one of the two gentlemen addressed above will make enquiries of their ambulance dispatch and at least tell them that even though there may be genuine emergencies each and every Sunday morning at 11:00 o’clock, there is scarcely any traffic on the roads at that time, and certainly no need to run the siren.

BRUCE G RAINE

Nassau,

February 6, 2018.