THE EDITOR, Sir:
RESPONDING TO the editorial, 'The brain drain', 80 per cent of our graduates are migrating because after completing a tertiary education they are then forced to hang up their degrees or watch them gather dust. There are no jobs and no system in place for university graduates to obtain employment after university and who is to be blamed for this great misfortune? Our incompetent Government.
We elect these individuals to represent us, the people, and to make decisions that will benefit the country, but instead they destroy our hopes and dreams. They have neglected their duties in every way possible; they have abandoned the farmers and discarded our teachers; what more is there to say. We import produce and sell them cheaper than our local produce thus driving the farmers out of business. Teachers are paid little or nothing so they migrate to different parts of the world.
Look at Trinidad, it costs nothing to attend high school, why can't our politicians implement this system. Our little country should be more than able to sustain itself. Education, farming, law enforcement, and exporting should be the foundation on which our Government strives to build and better our country. But instead, they sell all our country's resources because it is best managed in the hands of private sectors.
What does this say about the Government's ability to manage the country? The Prime Minister has run our country into the ground and when he is
finished he too will migrate.
I am, etc.,
DEAN FORD
deque462@aol.com
17 Oakland Ave, Kingston 11
Via Go-Jamaica
