THE EDITOR, Sir:
PLEASE ALLOW me to thank Flo O'Connor for her approach to this new initiative Kingfish in reply to questions and suggestions from the many callers on Thursday night, October 21.
Her comments caused me to think of what next if Kingfish does not bring the results we need. My suggestion is try the United Nations. If they don't have a body to deal with crippling crime especially in small countries they have to create one they are the supreme authority on world matters.
The suggestion springs to mind because of the job they did for us in the '60s when this country faced the problem of inadequate skilled labour for the new industrialised Jamaica. The UNDP got us ready by bringing experts from all over the world, through ILO, for five years and solved every aspect of the problem. Nobody could say we brought only white people.
They established the Industrial Training Board and VTDI. Although the political thinking was not focused likewise in the '70s, by the '80s their recommendations were back on stream but renamed HEART and by the '90s received the full treatment as HEART/NTA. Can anybody deny that the U.N. programme is doing a good job and is well on the way to solving that problem?
I agree with Flo to give Kingfish a chance to swim, even if it gets nutriment for a short time.
I am, etc.,
STEVE DYER
Mandeville
