The Editor, Sir:

So the proverbial democracy has arrived at another potentially pivotal ... pivot that hasn't really been a pivot for the past couple of elections, but oh well ... and as usual, another 60 per cent of the Jamaican electorate (who got on the list just to get the national ID) will not vote. Why they say? Young people, most of us, (yes, I'm guilty, never voted) and educated, yet we say "I don't see who to vote for, so I won't vote".

We are chided for being irresponsible and making a shameful mockery of this privilege people died for, but the partisan band-wagons that vote for passion rather than reason are the ones making our ancestors turn in their graves, promising health care, education, chicken in u pot and nanny in u pocket, but what do we really want?

Hypocritical nation

We have really become a hypocritical nation with corrupt police masquerading as law enforcers and corrupt politicians masquerading as rights enforcers and corrupt customs personnel masquerading as security enforcers and the list goes on and on and on.

What we need is a system that identifies these people, at whatever level, from the lowest to the highest who abuse their authority, whether that authority is over a computer network, a square foot of building or $300 million of tax revenue, and punish them. There must be penalties that are applied in a structured and efficient manner once there is sufficient evidence to identify the guilty parties. What we really need is accountability.

I am, etc.,

NASHIRA BROWN

Kingston 6

Via Go-Jamaica

autre@cwjamaica.com