NOTE-WORTHY
Published:Monday | May 17, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Jamaica first
It was reported recently that when Information Minister Daryl Vaz was asked whether the issue of Bruce Golding's resignation had been placed before a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) executive meeting, Vaz seemed evasive, and responded: "In a situation like this, everything has to be aired. If you know the prime minister as well as I do, you would know that his first and foremost concern is his party."
That is surely a very disappointing response, and not the answer that Jamaica would like to hear. One must ask: "What about Jamaica? Should the prime minister's prime concern not be the best interests of Jamaica?"
If true, that his first and foremost concern is his party, that would seem to be a very serious case of misplaced priorities ... disappointing to all Jamaicans, including thoughtful JLP supporters.
Is it any wonder that Jamaica has serious problems?
A. G. Gumbs
Illinois, USA
My heart is broken
I pride myself on being a very tough Jamaican whose heart is not easily broken, but on May 11 mine was. I am a grown man and I was moved to tears when heard from my prime minister, Orette Bruce Golding.
After all Jamaica had been through the past 18 years prior to his ascension to the office of prime minister in 2007, I saw Mr Golding as the man Celine Dion referred to in her song Call the Man. I truly believed Mr Golding would be the man who could heal Jamaica. I thought of him as that same person who was needed in the song in all the chaos and confusion that existed then.
The void that existed in Jamaican politics, I thought, would have been filled by Mr Golding. Never in my life have I been so hurt and feeling a sense of despair. Everywhere I look for someone else who can take the mantle of this blessed country and make something out of this race against crime, violence, poverty and degradation, I am disappointed, because I see no one.
It is truly an unfortunate situation we find ourselves in today because someone is needed to guide Jamaica at this time.
Lennox Denton
junior 24gong@yahoo.com
May Pen, Clarendon
Houses wanted
I write this letter to appeal to the powers that be to provide some housing solutions to the thousands of single, so-called middle-income earners.
I am an educated single woman and until now I have not been able to secure a housing solution. I have been faithful to my country all these years and yet it seems I am working in vain. My salary just cannot afford these mortgages. I was born in and still live in the inner city. I would like one day, to place my dear mother in a room in my own home and yet that seems like an illusion.
I beg of you housing providers, please build affordable housing for single women like me.
Chloe