Dear Editor,
One enters a Jamaican political debate with great fear and trepidation that it is most likely going to be a grand waste of time and effort. But, somehow I feel that I must this time because there is so much at stake in this energy crisis that we are using as a political football, our obsessive national pastime.
Given the enormous talent, creativity, assertiveness, and business acumen of our people, Jamaica could have been way ahead had it not been for the crippling cost of energy.
As far back as the 1970s we saw that we were unable to benefit as we should from smelting alumina which we have in abundance.
Our manufacturers have not been able to compete with our Caricom partners, not because of a lack of quality, but because of the cost of energy.
While I worry about the many controversies in which Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell has been involved in, it seems clear to me that he is seized with a mission to provide Jamaica with cheaper energy. If this were an easy matter, we would have solved it long ago.
But instead of cheering him along, correcting where necessary, but making our support for him sure, we are trying to lynch him for his passion. It is a crime of passion that he is guilty of on all our behalf and we need to stop the politicking with this matter.
Andrew Goldson
Riffraph54@gmail.com
Lynching Paulwell for his 'crime of passion'
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One enters a Jamaican political debate with great fear and trepidation that it is most likely going to be a grand waste of time and effort. But, somehow I feel that I must this time because there is so much at stake in this energy crisis that we are using as a political football, our obsessive national pastime.
Given the enormous talent, creativity, assertiveness, and business acumen of our people, Jamaica could have been way ahead had it not been for the crippling cost of energy.
As far back as the 1970s we saw that we were unable to benefit as we should from smelting alumina which we have in abundance.
Our manufacturers have not been able to compete with our Caricom partners, not because of a lack of quality, but because of the cost of energy.
While I worry about the many controversies in which Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell has been involved in, it seems clear to me that he is seized with a mission to provide Jamaica with cheaper energy. If this were an easy matter, we would have solved it long ago.
But instead of cheering him along, correcting where necessary, but making our support for him sure, we are trying to lynch him for his passion. It is a crime of passion that he is guilty of on all our behalf and we need to stop the politicking with this matter.
Andrew Goldson
Riffraph54@gmail.com
Lynching Paulwell for his 'crime of passion'
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