THE EDITOR, Sir:
THE DESIRABILITY, and indeed the desire, of our diaspora to 'pay back' some of the fruits garnered as a result of their good Jamaican groundings is a current topic.
Also in the news is the parlous state of many of our basic schools. A league table of parish illiteracy rates has just been published by the Planning Institute.
It is suggested that each parish Homecoming Committee could initiate a parish Diaspora Debenture to prepare the tilth and ensure thorough mulching of its present and future seedlings.
For a practical start see to it that within each parish every basic school has piped water, electricity, adequate furniture and equipment. Above all, every school should have at least one trained qualified teacher. Provision of training scholarships plus pleasant working conditions could attract an appropriate cohort of recruits.
The emigre sons and daughters of each parish could lead/read the way to literacy in their parish.
I am, etc.,
C.P. FRAY
Kingston
