Fiddling while home burns
published: Tuesday | September 7, 2004

THE EDITOR, SIR:

IF YOU were head of a household and had to choose between giving your youngster school books or soccer boots, what would you do? And if you were head of a government that didn't have money to fix fire engines to protect the lives and property of hundreds of thousands, would you go out and buy an 8.5-million dollar bus to transport a soccer team from one playing field to the next?

And if you were a minister of government who presided over the purchase of a $9 million toy soccer ball, just because the island's team managed to reach the finals of the World Cup, could you genuinely complain when you had no funds to repair a broken down fire service?

Dear Reader, if you don't give the right answers to these questions, you are indeed fiddling while home burns.

I am, etc.,

KEN JONES

alllerdyce@hotmail.com