THE EDITOR, Sir:
NO ONE can fault this government for thinking 'big' and basking in its achievements. We have highways as one example. Billions have been spent on highways while our existing roads are neglected and farmers are unable to move their produce in rural areas.
We have plans for a new town and at the same time our old towns fall into squalor. We pride ourselves on distributing houses and build them on agricultural lands and at the same time increase our importation of food.
We have an Ambassador for Children to speak at world forums and our children are neglected.
We have a Minister of Water, but not enough water, so black water tanks are an important part of our landscape and protests are daily for water.
We are bent on the Caribbean Court of Justice while we are short of judges and our police stations are in deplorable condition.
Now this is not to ignore these projects and to reduce their importance, but for some, the 'time is out of joint'. There seems to be an undue haste to be the greatest. However, unless we pay attention to crime, to the education of our people to be productive, to the creation of jobs, to the acknowledgement of our self worth and what it really means to be a Jamaican all these grandiose efforts will be in vain.
I am, etc.,
DOREEN McLEOD-
BRAMWELL
P.O. Box 52
Port Antonio
