The proceedings of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee in recent weeks, marked by sharp exchanges between Government and Opposition members, has evoked criticisms from readers. Below are two samples of the public's reaction combined as Letters of the Day.

The Editor, Sir:

Has anyone ever sat and watched excerpts of the proceedings in the Jamaican Parliament, especially the Public Accounts Committee, on any given day, and like me, thought, "Oh, that's right! Hence, Jamaica!?" Politicians in my opinion get away with too much in this country and as Jamaicans, we will never get the quality leadership that we deserve until we begin to hold these crazy people accountable for what Jamaica is.

K.D. Knight, in particular, needs to be given a very strong dose of a very powerful sedative a lot of us well-thinking Jamaicans like to call 'humble pill'. Personally, I understand his need to exaggerate his importance when provided with such a public forum via which to do so, but he has to understand that this is not about him and his intelligence (or lack thereof); this is about the people of Jamaica, who he swore to represent.

Sadly, his party leader does not have the wherewithal to hold him accountable for his buffoonery. But, frankly, if K.D. Knight continues to sit on the PAC., behaving like a spoilt four-year-old basic school child, dark days are ahead for Jamaica.

Concurrently, the Jamaica Labour Party needs to do all in its power to ensure that its members do not fall victim to whatever ailment besets the PAC representatives of the People's National Party. Otherwise, it will not just be the malaria outbreak that the Ministry of Health will have to spend millions of dollars to control in the very near future.

I am, etc.,

NICORDIA VICKERS

niekababes@yahoo.com