THE EDITOR, Sir:One promises hope, freedom from crime, and the other promises wealth and jobs under their administration. When last I checked, this was their administration. How many more promises will there be? How much more will the country lose?
The national minimum wage is $2,800 per week. A person taking four Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) buses per day pays $1,000 for the week. How can you feed yourself on $1,800 when you have little or no marketable skills to do better? How are government-run high schools turning out students who cannot read? Why is a retired prime minister being paid the same as the current? Why is the National Water Commission (NWC) the only locally-owned utility company? But then, it's not all their fault is it? Who put them there?
Let us, the current generation take power from those who would use it to further themselves and give it back to those who rightly deserve it, the people of this country. Let us make our children proud to be Jamaican.
The past is the past and cannot be changed but we have the now, and we are the future. Let's make a difference, let's make a change. You cannot win if you do not try. So to all those young enough to relate and old enough to vote, STAND UP, SPEAK UP!
I am, etc.,
JASON LOTON
jason.loton@gmail.com
Kingston
