Local garment firms ditched
published: Wednesday | September 10, 2003
THE EDITOR, Sir:
WHEN EVEN a government institution in Jamaica is forced to ditch its local garment manufacturers of uniforms and give these contracts instead to overseas manufacturers causing local operators to put hundreds of workers on the unemployment block, something is very wrong with Jamaica.
This at a time when Ministers Paul Robertson and Omar Davies both of whom should have a vested intrest in the well-being and survival of our local garment manufacturers have turned a blind eye, because they're too busy jockeying for leadership of a fading party.
We've seen over the years the millions of dollars the Government wasted on investing in foreign companies, some of which never even got started before millions of dollars were squandered on them. Yet, so many of our own local companies are left to die a natural death all for the want of a few dollars to bring them up to standard in order that they become competitive.
