The Editor, Sir:

Many different views have been expressed on the nature of doodling. Some have suggested that doodling is the subconscious mind at work. Others have suggested the opposite. Yet others argue that it is done during times of boredom - passing of time - nervousness or vulnerability.

It, however, seems difficult not to have some reservation about the PM finding time to doodle during an important debate in Parliament on a no-confidence motion brought against her Government. Except if we are assuming that she had little interest in the debate, knowing that the Government would be relying on its parliamentary majority to defeat the motion.

Given the seriousness of the motion and its implications for the government and peoples of Jamaica, one should have thought that the level of the attentiveness of the PM to the debate, would have been so unrelenting that it would have deprived her of time for doodling.

Privacy

Proponents of the PM's indulgence in doodling during the parliamentary debate, also argued that for the press to have captured and published the drawings, constitute an act of invading her privacy. However, Parliament is the central place where the business of the country is conducted. It certainly is not an appropriate place for one to take or conduct that which may be deemed as one's private and personal matter.

It is, therefore, absurd to argue that in capturing and publishing how the PM spends her time in Parliament is an invasion of her privacy. Rather, we must demand that parliamentary time be spent on public matters.

I am, etc.,

L. RUSSELL

Ensom City

St Catherine