Dear Editor,
With a Government that seems not to know what it is doing, with different groups shouting contrary opinions at each other, is it possible for the sake of Jamaica to have a rational discussion and arrive at consensus on the Goat Islands issue. This may be our only ladder to climb out of our poverty.
I must respect Howard Chin's analysis from the point of view of an engineer, but I would have liked it better to have come from the Jamaica Institution of Engineers. This body should be sitting down with the Government, the Chinese investors, the Opposition, the manufacturers' association, the chamber of commerce, the conservationists, and any other important stakeholder to come to a rational decision.
If Howard Chin is right, we are playing the goat with Goat Islands and acting like Ponzi scheme victims who, dazzled by the prospect of immediate gain, commit themselves to acts of folly.
It may be that I missed something and the consultation that I propose has already been done. It seems not, however, and it is time we stopped shouting at each other and make a sensible decision.
The same thing applies to the business of energy. In one of his last presentations Edward Seaga spoke of converting to clean coal. It has been more than 25 years, we chatter and we jabber and we still have not slain the dragon.
Orville Brown
storyline6000@gmail.com
We need rational discussion and conscensus
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With a Government that seems not to know what it is doing, with different groups shouting contrary opinions at each other, is it possible for the sake of Jamaica to have a rational discussion and arrive at consensus on the Goat Islands issue. This may be our only ladder to climb out of our poverty.
I must respect Howard Chin's analysis from the point of view of an engineer, but I would have liked it better to have come from the Jamaica Institution of Engineers. This body should be sitting down with the Government, the Chinese investors, the Opposition, the manufacturers' association, the chamber of commerce, the conservationists, and any other important stakeholder to come to a rational decision.
If Howard Chin is right, we are playing the goat with Goat Islands and acting like Ponzi scheme victims who, dazzled by the prospect of immediate gain, commit themselves to acts of folly.
It may be that I missed something and the consultation that I propose has already been done. It seems not, however, and it is time we stopped shouting at each other and make a sensible decision.
The same thing applies to the business of energy. In one of his last presentations Edward Seaga spoke of converting to clean coal. It has been more than 25 years, we chatter and we jabber and we still have not slain the dragon.
Orville Brown
storyline6000@gmail.com
We need rational discussion and conscensus
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