THE EDITOR, Sir:
IN THE wake of the slaughter of three JLP partisans in Temple Hall over road work, the PMI led by Bishop Herro Blair has hit upon a brilliant plan for the non-partisan distribution of scarce benefits. The dirty job is to be done by a committee of non-partisan citizens like lambs to the slaughter.
For have no doubt, neither tribe will be happy with any decision made. A 50:50 split is bound to anger PNP supporters because is fi dem time now. A larger proportion in favour of one side or the other - God forbid in favour of the side out of power - is war over unfairness. And we haven't even considered the problem of identification yet. Nor the problem of old scores to settle from the as yet un-revenged murders.
But most of all, the party area dons behind the scenes, expert extortionists that they are, will simply send a bullet in an envelope to the non-partisan committee as a pointed recommendation that their people be hired - or else. The committee will be caught in the vice of double jeopardy, squeezed from the left and squeezed from the right.
Nothing is really being done by this brilliant scheme about the tribal war over scarce benefits or to bring killers to justice. There is just a transfer of the pressure point from the contractor dealing directly with partisan representatives of various criminal hues to a committee of non-partisan innocents who will very soon discover that they are directly in the line of fire, which has already taken lives in their community.
I am, etc.,
WARNER
Kingston
