Portia disappoints

The Editor, Sir:

While I admit that I did not have unrealistically-high hopes for the Prime Minister, I will say that I really felt she would have made a difference to life in Jamaica. It sounded as if she had a group of wise women and a few men around her and where she was weak, they would fill in.

None of us likes to have to admit to being totally wrong. I now feel as if I have rotten egg all over my face. It is stink and messy. I can hardly hold my head up among my friends who gloatingly tell me, 'We told you so'.

Well, as time passes, PM Portia is making a difference to our lives, but not the type of change we relish. She seems to be perfecting a very worrying trend of coming across as an uncaring dictator and one who is not even brave enough to admit when she is behind a decision.

First, it was the 'doodle door'. Next we heard that some security detail locked the door to prevent media access to the JLP senators without the senators knowing anything about it; and then it was the journalists banned from Jamaica House during the visit of the president of the International Olympic Committee.

For her part, she always acts as if she has no idea what is happening around her. Last thing she told a reporter was to ask the PNP about the Trafigura cheque. And who dear PM is the PNP?

I am, etc.,

MARLENE ROCHESTER

marl_rochester@yahoo.com

Widcombe Heights

Kingston 6