THE EDITOR, Sir:
THE RECENT victory of the JLP in the Local Government elections should serve as a serious wake-up call to the incumbent PNP. There is no doubt that this was a referendum on the policies of the PNP Government; perhaps the only time in recent memory when a Local Government Election truly had profoundly national implications.
For the JLP, it is indeed a twist of political irony, that the institution that it sought to systematically dismember in the 1980s has become the instrument of its own redemption in the national political spotlight.
The profound lesson to be learnt by the PNP is that it has lost credibility in the eyes of the Jamaican electorate. Were the recent polls general elections there is no doubt that there would have been a complete sweep.
The truth is that the litany of scandals that have plagued this Administration have now dented the integrity of the party to such an extent that nobody, even many of the PNP die-hards, hardly believes what the Government says. And this is tragic for their continued governance of the country.
The most defining feature of any competence that the PNP may claim to have lies in their ability to brazenly use the resources of state to perpetuate themselves in power. The resources have grown thinner and thinner and the day is not far when this ability will become completely redundant. One would hope for the good of the country that they would have been put out to pasture long before then.
I am, etc.,
Rev. RALSTON
NEMBHARD
stead6655@aol.com
Via Go-Jamaica
