THE EDITOR, Sir:
IN RESPONSE, no, more 'reaction' to Dr. Garth Rattray's February 28 commentary on the placement of dons, I imagine no small, but still-safe eye, young or old, remained unopen, no brow lowered, for a 'still-unaffected, still-doubtful-there-is-anything-wrong' Jamaica.
Indeed, the good doctor's surprise at a politician's 'slip of the lip' apparent naiveté, or whatever it was that led Dr. Omar Davies to make that 'don' comment, is notable and so it should be, if only because it may hopefully represent a turning point, and a time of awakening for the Jamaican people.
In Jamaica, the way things are going now, eventually there would even be a course at the UWI Mona campus entitled 'Don Management and its effect upon the development of Third World Economies'.
The good Doctor Rattray has only pointed out the obvious that the problem is the same in Jamaica as it is anywhere else.
Everyone has it backwards. They all listen for lies among truth, when they should be listening for the truth among all the well-accepted lies.
I am, etc.,
ED McCOY
mmhobo48@juno.com
Bokeelia, FL
Via Go-Jamaica
