Dear Editor,
I really don't understand who is responsible for writing our PM's speeches, who is reading over the speeches before they go public, and who are her advisors.
The more I listen to our prime minister, the more I am embarrassed. Sometimes you have to wonder if she is the prime minister of Wonderland or if she is really Jamaica's first female prime minister.
The Observer carried an article titled, 'We cannot fear competition', which is says to me that Mrs Simpson Miller is a good candidate to be the prime minister of Wonderand. She used words that she seems not have a clue what they mean. For example, the subtitle in this same article, 'Portia urges regional tourism interests to be bold, innovative.' The word bold refers to someone who is not afraid to do things which involve risk or danger. Here we have the prime minister telling other people to be bold while crime flourishes under her watch, and she is not bold enough to tell Peter Bunting, her minister of national security, to lead from the front. She is talking about getting more tourists onto our shores, and not at the same time actively dealing with crime. Does she not reliase that crime is why some people won't come to Jamaica?
I am wondering who put the word innovative in her speech. This is a foreign word to 90 per cent of Jamaica's non-politicians. An innovative person introduces changes and new ideas. Can anyone tell me if our prime minister and security minister are innovative persons? Where are their plans to fight crime? There is nothing innovative about these two persons.
Read an excerpt from one of the many useless paragraphs in her speech. "Most destinations have sea and sun. So, to compete effectively, the policy must be innovative and the strategy must embrace concepts of sustainability as reflected in Jamaica's master tourist plan," she said.
Jamaica's biggest problem is crime, and the earlier the prime minister can say the word 'crime' the better this country will be. Between 2000 and 2012, Tenerife's average visitors per year was over four million. Tenerife is not as exotic as Jamaica, but the island is very safe, which is why people are going there. If they think they can continue burying their heads in the sand and think investors, tourists and Jamaicans living overseas are coming to join them, they are in for a rude awakening.
The PM should learn to take drastic action; in order to solve a problem, you have to do something extreme and basic to solve it.
Hero Scott
herocarlito@yahoo.com
PM of Wonderland?
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I really don't understand who is responsible for writing our PM's speeches, who is reading over the speeches before they go public, and who are her advisors.
The more I listen to our prime minister, the more I am embarrassed. Sometimes you have to wonder if she is the prime minister of Wonderland or if she is really Jamaica's first female prime minister.
The Observer carried an article titled, 'We cannot fear competition', which is says to me that Mrs Simpson Miller is a good candidate to be the prime minister of Wonderand. She used words that she seems not have a clue what they mean. For example, the subtitle in this same article, 'Portia urges regional tourism interests to be bold, innovative.' The word bold refers to someone who is not afraid to do things which involve risk or danger. Here we have the prime minister telling other people to be bold while crime flourishes under her watch, and she is not bold enough to tell Peter Bunting, her minister of national security, to lead from the front. She is talking about getting more tourists onto our shores, and not at the same time actively dealing with crime. Does she not reliase that crime is why some people won't come to Jamaica?
I am wondering who put the word innovative in her speech. This is a foreign word to 90 per cent of Jamaica's non-politicians. An innovative person introduces changes and new ideas. Can anyone tell me if our prime minister and security minister are innovative persons? Where are their plans to fight crime? There is nothing innovative about these two persons.
Read an excerpt from one of the many useless paragraphs in her speech. "Most destinations have sea and sun. So, to compete effectively, the policy must be innovative and the strategy must embrace concepts of sustainability as reflected in Jamaica's master tourist plan," she said.
Jamaica's biggest problem is crime, and the earlier the prime minister can say the word 'crime' the better this country will be. Between 2000 and 2012, Tenerife's average visitors per year was over four million. Tenerife is not as exotic as Jamaica, but the island is very safe, which is why people are going there. If they think they can continue burying their heads in the sand and think investors, tourists and Jamaicans living overseas are coming to join them, they are in for a rude awakening.
The PM should learn to take drastic action; in order to solve a problem, you have to do something extreme and basic to solve it.
Hero Scott
herocarlito@yahoo.com
PM of Wonderland?
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