The Editor, Sir:

President of the Nurses' Association of Jamaica (NAJ), Edith Allwood-Anderson, has been vociferously and stridently demanding that the minister of finance, Audley Shaw, grant a 100 per cent salary increase for the public-sector nurses throughout the hospitals and health clinics in the country. Quite regrettably, the NAJ, under the leadership of Allwood-Anderson, has vehemently refused to sign Memorandum of Under-standing number three.

Impractical

It is really preposterous and idiotic for Mrs Allwood-Anderson and her NAJ executive to be demanding such a salary increase. It is highly irresponsible for Mrs Allwood-Anderson to be making such a ludicrous and impractical salary demand on the Government and they are demonstrating that the NAJ has a confused leadership in place not serving the interests of its members in a pragmatic, realistic and sensible manner.

I have never heard any other public-sector group of workers demanding a salary increase of 100 per cent in this country.

I am, etc.,

ROBERT DALLEY

Reading PO

St James