THE EDITOR, Sir:
I AM about to put these proposals to the ruling party or the ruling party in the future.
As you have so rightly asked Cayman Islands people to submit a visa request to visit Jamaica, I think you should further extend this to other countries, such as the United Kingdom and the rest of the world, who are desperate to discriminate against Jamaicans and, at the same time, incur large amounts of revenue for their country by charging large visa entry fees at a NIL return for us.
Few or no Jamaicans ever seem to get a visa these days to go anywhere, especially to the U.K. and United States. Of course, they are both brothers with thinking minds alike (Bush and Blair). I despise the attitude and the approach of the British Commissioners in Kingston. The official attitudes are no more than that of slave masters. This is really upsetting for me to see in Jamaica that some of the Jamaicans are far more qualified than some of the civil servants of the British Commissioner's office. I know because I have spent 40 years in England in that very sector working alongside them.
Jamaica should, therefore, charge visa fees to the countries that are not flexible with them, and in all respects reap some of the wealth of the foreigners who want to come and visit, and in some cases to come and exploit our people. Visa fees will enable us to create new revenues and perhaps we could use that money to regenerate a new development in education for our young children.
I am, etc.,
MRS. WILIAMSON
jvm@jmc.ac.uk
Wood Ridge Road
United Kingdom
Via Go-Jamaica
