THE EDITOR, Sir:
IT IS with more than slight bemusement that I read the Friday Gleaner piece on what the young business people had to say at the Editors' Forum in October 2002.
They said nothing I did not expect them to say. Yes, Mr Collister and Mr Chen (Richard), the government should adopt a liberal approach and allow entrepreneurship to flourish. We should leave our economy; nay, our lives to the whims and fancies of businessmen whose first loyalty is to a strong bottomline.
If I remember correctly, it was this same class of people who speculated on our dollar and mismanaged and misappropriated our money in the previous decade and caused us to be in this bind now.
Mr Alok Jain is correct. The government needs to play the lead role in the transformation of this country's fortunes. In all the developing countries that have prospered, the government not only laid a macro-economic foundation for progress, but were the trailblazers and innovators. The day when we follow a hands-off approach to our economy, the only thing that will grow is the chasm between the haves and the have-nots.
I am, etc.,
GAVIN MYERS
madmanmyaz@yahoo.co.uk
Kingston 11
Via Go-Jamaica
