THE EDITOR, Sir:
IN THESE trumpet-sounding, bell-ringing, nothing doing, and everything doing times in Jamaica land we love, when Jamaicans from all walks of life are invited to log on, log off, look to the lighthouse and we know not what else, when some places are waterlogged while some people are at loggerheads for reasons that defy logic, it is good for the politically astute and the pundits to log on to the new breed of electorates who are no longer willing to sit around like dead logs.
Unfortunately, some people have logged on to lawlessness, but many have logged on to the game of politricks and are just as determined to win the next general election as the politicians. Let us not underestimate the seemingly dull and ignorant.
'Nyam dem out den vote dem out' is one of the campaign slogans. People on the ground also shout "Who you voting fa? PNP." Some are asking for telescopes to see the progress. While some shout, don't stop the progress, others are shouting please stop the progress close enough to me so that I can log on. Some even complain about being tantalised by the progress of others while they languish in their neglected communities.
Some are searching for the lighthouse that seems to have sunken in a sea of green while some people were picking oranges that fell into hands that became blue from the cold while others left the fold. Some people are busy trying to procure microscopes to find pollsters who pre-empt the real polls by predicting votes that are polls apart from their real intentions.
Some people express the wish to be questioned by these pollsters for whom they have answers to questions that they have not yet been asked.
Blessed are those who knew their constituents before the time of vote seeking drew near. The word on the ground is, "Wen dem win, dem naa memba wi, so a fi wi time now. Mek wi tek wa wi can get." And so the demands are made. No road, no vote is becoming a popular slogan in the people's campaign.
Whichever party forms the next government of Jamaica, it will not be business as usual. Change is inevitable. The new breed of electorates will have it no other way. They have logged on to wisdom.
I am etc.,
WINNIE ANDERSON-BROWN
winab@cwjamaica.com
Bagatelle District
Ashley P.A.
Clarendon.
