THE EDITOR, Sir:
SINCE MY speech in Parliament last month in which I asked the Finance Minister a number of questions which he has yet to answer, a number of commentators, instead of focusing on the relevant issue of the Minister's strategy, have been more comfortable in suggesting that I should have been less emotional.
I make absolutely no apology for being emotional. It is high time that we get emotional about the levels of mismanagement to which the country is at present subjected.
Omar Davies' and the PNP's policies have resulted in us paying more and more taxes, higher and higher interest rates while the national debt per person in Jamaica continues to rise at an alarming rate, and we have precious little to show for it by way of economic development. There is no growth in the country.
It is time to be emotional because after you pay the bank their interest and the Government its taxes, you have nothing left for your children and family.
Their policies have destroyed the productive sector of the economy putting thousands of people out of work and turning us into beggars and mendicants waiting for barrels and remittances from abroad.
If more of us become emotional, refuse to accept mismanagement and corruption, from this Government, they might just get the message that they must provide good government that can create wealth and peace in the society or step aside and let others do the job.
Jamaica and Jamaicans deserve better than this.
I am, etc.,
AUDLEY SHAW, MP
Opposition Spokesman on Finance
