Life of suffering, deprivation
published: Tuesday | March 2, 2004
THE EDITOR, Sir:
IT BEHOVES Jamaican leaders to think deeply about the Jamaican children that they are scarring. The Minister of Finance pursues policies with an apparent disregard for the human element. The human part of the equation. He has followed the dictates of banking institutions from elsewhere, old 20th century recipes for a 21st century problem. He has condemned unwittingly so many Jamaicans to a life of suffering and deprivation. We all know of the fabled creativity of Jamaicans. That is what put Bob Marley on the world map and Sean Paul as well.
But what is startling and shocking is how much the State has forced people to use their creativity in criminality. For many a Jamaican it is the only outlet. So many Jamaican mothers have to bury their babies in trauma because of a State that has shown no human face, because of a society that, notwithstanding how many churches it has, is desensitised to death. Jamaicans need to ask, is this what they bargained for? Is this what they were dreaming of when they asked for good governance according to the Consti-tution bestowed on them?
