The Editor, Sir:

Contrary to what detractors say, the promise of Mr. Golding that his party, if and when elected, will finance secondary education and remove hospital fees can be fulfilled simply by the employment of the economic doctrine of opportunity costs, otherwise known a costs, through budgeting. This is exactly what we are to understand Mr. Golding, the scholar of economics, as saying.

If mankind can put a man on the moon, explore outer space, create weapons of mass destruction, invent computers, motor cars and aeroplanes, etcetera, etcetera, why can't our political leaders achieve the relatively simple, but among the most important things this country badly needs, if they think positively?

I think Mr. Golding should add to his list a meaningful legal aid system for the poor and disadvantaged, financing compulsory early child-hood education and taking immediate steps to develop and use a policy on separation of powers, all judicial appointments should be by an independent judicial commission. And because an Attorney-General can also be legal and political adviser to his party as well as adviser to the people's government, he should not at the same time hold the post of Minister of Justice.

The Director of Public Prosecutions should also be appointed by the commission, and even more desirable still, no one person should wear the hat of Director of Public Prosecutions in a modern and democratic society.

I am, etc.,

OWEN S. CROSBIE

oss@cwjamaica.com

3 Hotel Street

Mandeville