THE EDITOR, Sir:
THIS SUMMER we have seen the good, the bad and the ugly in Jamaica. After a wonderful experience with the staging of the World Junior Games, a historic 40th anniversary of the nation we went right back to the murder and mayhem.
Emancipation and Indepen-dence went off on a high note the nation was at its best, then the election campaign reared its ugly head and three people were dead near Spanish Town.
How can the same people celebrate today and turn to murder tonight?
I was pleased to read of Marcia Hextall's work at the JCDC, but in the next minute I read of the horrors taking place in Grants Pen with the rapes and murder. Then there was the murder of the bus driver on Mountain View.
I long for the election to be over so that we can put an end to political broadcasts and meetings, the mutual provocation of idle party supporters and the empty promises common to the politicians.
Politics is helping to kill the country at a time when we have an ailing economy and ailing spirits. We need a giant transfusion of hope to bring out the best in us, we need to stop looking and feeling so bad and ugly.
We need a new vision of the possibilities. Let us hope that as soon as the election is over we will set to work to make things right, more employment, better schools and communities, a cleaner environment, less cursing and more praise, less gratuitous sex and violence, more self respect less self hate.
I am etc.,
HILARY ROBERTSON-
HICKLING
hrhick@ uwimona.edu.jm
Department of
Management Studies
UWI, Mona
