RGD headache

It seems the only way to elicit a response from the Registrar General's Department (RGD) these days is through this medium, since they fail to appreciate the value of having a switchboard.

It has been six weeks since I lodged a deed of conveyance on October 14 and paid for a seven-day (delivery) service. To date, I am yet to receive the document. My several visits to the downtown office has been futile as either it is that the person assigned to deal with matters of this nature is out for lunch, or there's nothing they can do but suggest that queries be directed to their head office. I have even sent emails via their website but that, too, remains unheeded.

The transaction number on the receipt is 298777 and the account number is 0000677.

Will someone from the Registrar General's Department please indicate when I will be able to get this deed, plus a refund of the amount paid for a seven-day service which really never materialised?

- A. Dunn, arydunn@yahoo.com

A failed state

In your editorial of November 19, you wrote: "It is unfortunate that Golding, the leader who set for himself new benchmarks for integrity and governance, appears unable to escape the old order of politics." True. Even the diehard supporters of Golding and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) will find it hard to rebut your comments.

As I see it, to date, nothing that Golding has told us or promised he will do in regard to crime, corruption, accountability and good governance has materialised or reflected in his leadership of our country.

Since the JLP administration, led by Bruce 'New and Different' Golding took the wheels of government from the PNP in 2007, Jamaica has not stopped the decline into that of a failed state.

Failed leadership equals failed state.

- Authnel Reid, optonline.net

Tired of JLP blame game

I've grown sick and tired of hearing the JLP blame the PNP for the current state of the economy. Currently, the PM and minister of finance have been focusing on Dr Omar Davies' failed policies and stating that he should never be allowed to make another public utterance.

Then they commission a 'waste-of-time FINSAC enquiry' to continue to give Dr Davies a platform to speak. Why? Doesn't the result of the last general election suggests that the majority of Jamaicans agree that the PNP's policies were wrong? So why can't we just move on to finding solutions?

Shouldn't we be focusing on addressing the social decay and the archaic infrastructure that has paralysed or industries? There are doable practical solutions to our problems. My unborn children (and grandchildren) can ill afford any more years of meaningless and expensive political experiments. Time for solutions, Mr Golding.

- Damion Moore, dzervmoore@hotmail.com