The MPs shouldn't get a pay increase. They haven't been doing a job worthy of one. I agree with Audley Shaw that a performance-based salary package should be implemented ... maybe then we'd get some results from our parliamentarians.

The most pertinent question is however, why can't the nurses, police force, junior doctors, teachers and other civil servants get the increases they deserve? Haven't the parliamentarians done enough to keep the country in poverty? Do they have no conscience?

- RC, radical.citizen@gmail.com, Via Go-Jamaica

I was delighted to see a Sunday newsletter by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) on the controversial Portmore toll road issue. The provocative newsletter indicates to me that the JLP is now very interested in representing the residents of Portmore in Parliament. I now believe that the People's National Party will have great difficulties holding on to constituencies that Portmore and its environs fall into.

The largely struggling residents of Portmore have now had it with the terrible and bungling handling of the toll road dilemma by the Government. I am particularly disappointed with Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller who has ducked the issue all together.

- Carlene Williams, carlenewilliams45@hotmail.com, Via Go-Jamaica

We need to examine how we think about each other. If our thoughts are based on fear and self-doubt, we have to replace them with love, and self-confidence. We need to transform our dominating thoughts by changing our mentality from one of 'scarcity', to one of 'abundance', i.e., we can work together and win together.

This can be done if our leaders, whether they are in government, business, the Church or in the community, understand that unless there is a 'thought revolution', especially at the higher levels, we will continue to decline morally and spiritually. The degradation of our economy, our environment and our quality of life as a nation, will inevitably follow.