Doctor Rock Plaza, located at the entrance of the community.

Launtia Cuff, Star Writer

Relatively quiet and violence free without out being remote, is how residents of Doctor Rock, St Elizabeth, view their community.

Yvonne Bowes-Tomlinson, who says she has spent her entire 54 years living in Doctor Rock, has seen the community move from a sparsely populated area to a much more established one.

“It establish because a whole lot more people come in the community. It is only few people who did live in here but it become a big community now. People from outside come and build,” Bowes-Tomlinson relayed.

She went on to say that being one of the closest communities to the town of Santa Cruz, persons living there were comfortable that it was within walking distance of the many conveniences the town had to offer. She added that in later years some of these new conveniences were even inching closer and closer to the Doctor Rock community.

“Any little thing, you can rush and buy what you need to buy. Even now you have a plaza [right at the entrance to the community],” Bowes shared.

She says while many things have changed since she was a child growing up, there was nowhere else she could see herself living other than in the community she has grown to call her own.

Fitzroy, who says he has been residing in Doctor Roack for more than 40 years, says while there are issues in the district there was nothing major that the community could not cope with.

The Santa Cruz bypass, along which the entrance to the community, is known for being flooded whenever there is heavy rain, which in turn causes water to settle at the entrance to Doctor Rock. Fitzroy says to him this is a minor inconvenience.

“We can cope with the situations that we face. For example, when we having a lot of [rain] it settles for a few hours; after it’s gone, the morass is there, too, but at the same time the relevant persons come in and get it sprayed,” he said.

He went on to add that for the most part the people in the community live well with each other.

“It is [relatively] violence free; some things might occur but it does not necessarily mean is people who live in here. It’s people who come in and create a little havoc or friction at times,” he added.

Another resident, Diana, says she, too, is of the opinion that the wrongs that are perpetrated in the community are done by outsiders, and that is why she believes they are in need of a neighbourhood watch to look out for aliens in the community.

“What I’d like to see in Doctor Rock is [for us] to have a park where the children can play, swing, and have fun. We also need a neighbourhood watch,” Diana told The Star.

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Doctor Rock Plaza, located at the entrance of the community.