THE EDITOR, Sir:I FEEL compelled to write in response to the printed letters from the 'ship jumpers.'
I wonder if we do not teach civics in our schools any more, as some of our citizens seem to have no feelings of belonging to Jamaica and have no patriotic feeling for the place of their birth.
The young seem to have no idea that democracy, which guarantees freedom, requires work by them to make it work.
Government by the people for the people cannot work unless the people participate.
The burden for making democracy work is put on the shoulders of the educated so if our educated abdicate this responsibility to the society by migrating, the country will not have good governance.
Politics in a democracy is not meant to be a game and would not be if the 'middle class' would accept their responsibilities for the running of the society in payment for the freedom guaranteed in the Constitution.
Migration solves no problems for this society, it only creates them, so participate by joining one of the political parties and change them from the inside. This beautiful country of our birth makes it worthwhile to stay and care.
I am etc.,
Dr. R. E. DAVID THWAITES
#28, Devon House East
Kingsway
Kingston 10
