THE EDITOR, Sir:
DELROY CHUCK, you strike me as a very intelligent man. However, you are very negative with all your commentary that has been published in The Gleaner.
As the Opposition, I know it's common knowledge that your responsibilities are to oppose everything, or so it would seem based on your comments. I would implore that nothing is furthest from the truth.
Your job is still to assist in taking Jamaica down the right path, which means you should spend more time thinking about how you and your party can assist the Government in achieving the best possible outcome for Jamaicans in the short and long run respectively. If you spend more of your productive time doing this, the fruit of your labour would be most appreciated.
My charge of focusing on Jamaica is not only to you, sir, but all your colleagues on both sides of the House. I believe you have managed to raise some serious points that cannot be overlooked, but you have not managed to post a feasible solution.
Do not tell me that a change of government is the answer, as Bruce Golding at a function of the Jamaica College Old Boys' Association at Columbia University, New York, last year, stated that a JLP government would have to do much of the same in terms of the running the country and financing its huge debt.
Therefore, you need to go back to the drawing board and do not return until you can furnish more conclusive information on how you would make changes for the 'better'.
I am, etc.,
XAVIER D. ALLEN
xallen@pegasus.rutgers.edu
East Orange, New Jersey
Via Go-Jamaica
