Letter to The Editor
Letter to Jamaica Gleaner re Jamaica’s Independence Day
This letter published on Thursday August 8th in The Gleaner gives an opposing view to Jamaica’s Independence.
Jamaica’s Sad Reality
THE EDITOR, Sir:
I have a strange feeling that Jamaica would’ve been way better off under the British (see Cayman, et al). So while others are happy that we are celebrating 51 years old, I’m feeling really sad.
Sad that we are being led by either the People’s National Party (PNP) or Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), which only believes in self and party. Sad that the minister of security cries for divine intervention when the Almighty has given us brains to think. Unless we decide to save Jamaica, God won’t!
Sad that we continue to allow our children to be slaughtered at the hands of criminals. Murders continue unabated.
Sad that our people remain largely uneducated and our children, after studying so long and hard for GSAT, is placed at an unfinished school. Sad that corruption is unending. Sad that communities continue to be victims, as the HPM told us “you can’t have a PNP MP and a JLP councillor” – tribal politics.
Sad that we can’t access proper health care. When a little girl, who was shot by marauding gunmen, can’t get the bullet removed until 2015. Sad that our people continues to live in squalor, while the member of parliament who is paid by the hard-earned taxes sleeps well in his or her lavish home. Sad that our politicians are yet to realise that they are servants of the people and not our masters.
Sad that our athletes, who gave us something to smile about, are under severe scrutiny since several tested positive for banned substances.
Sad that the Church is ready to demonstrate against those people of alternative lifestyle but remains quiet when the country is being led down a path of total destruction by successive governments.
Even more sad when the police break the same law they have sworn to uphold, daily without much consequence.
After all of that, do you see anything to smile about?
CONROD SENIOR
