THE EDITOR, Sir:
THE CONCERN about the possibility of nuclear terror is very real and troubling. The three-day workshop in St. Ann will provide a basis for us to understand the problem and start to look at ways to prevent a nuclear catastrophe in the Caribbean.
Nuclear technology has been demonised by images of destruction and the annihilation of millions; however, I do not take such a pessimistic view or fully condemn this technology. In my opinion it is like fire. It can certainly be destructive but it also has it usefulness.
It is a little amusing to me that the government is concerned about nuclear war but has little interest in pursuing the technology for its productive value.
We have brilliant engineers in this country and if our leaders have anything of foresight they might want to consider harnessing this power to supplement the energy requirements of our economy.
One of the reasons why investors find our country unattractive as a production centre of the region is because the JPSCo does not have the generating capacity or cost-efficiency to make productive enterprises more feasible.So many of them see our potential and strategic position in the shadow of the world's most lucrative market yet turn away to Mexico or elsewhere because we lack the infrastructural capacity to take full advantage of our opportunities.
I commend Senator Delano Franklyn, Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for representing our country as he should, but our public officials should also be eager to look at small, safe nuclear plants as an innovative technology that can help a country to become an attractive and competitive productive location.
I am etc,
KRISHNA FALCHER
Kf046@byuh.edu
Laie, Hawaii
USA
Via Go-Jamaica
