Dear Editor,
It has become the norm for political parties and their supporters to celebrate mediocre performance in Jamaica.
Just look at the happenings of the People's National Party's annual conference recently. I was astonished by the hundreds of attendees who cheered on the Government for their inability to get it right. Sadly, many of those same supporters would be returning home to unemployment.
How can a government celebrate when every morning thousands of university graduates wake up unemployed and many underemployed? How can a sensible government celebrate this with trumpet blows? It just does not spell sense and they ought to be ashamed.
But this is Jamaica, and I have to be careful, as the facts are not considered politically correct. The Government has been trumpeting job creation and small business start-up, but where is the venture capital and the market viability? The Government's low, to me, was to tell graduates to look overseas for jobs. When you export the most productive sector of your population what will happen to the country?
Call me what you may, but the reality staring at us is that Jamaica is on the brink of civil unrest and the Government needs to act quickly. Unfortunately, no one cares to check the facts as we're too busy celebrating that which is not real.
Okeino Robinson
Greater Portmore, St Catherine
okeino.robinson@gmail.com
Stop celebrating falsehoods
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It has become the norm for political parties and their supporters to celebrate mediocre performance in Jamaica.
Just look at the happenings of the People's National Party's annual conference recently. I was astonished by the hundreds of attendees who cheered on the Government for their inability to get it right. Sadly, many of those same supporters would be returning home to unemployment.
How can a government celebrate when every morning thousands of university graduates wake up unemployed and many underemployed? How can a sensible government celebrate this with trumpet blows? It just does not spell sense and they ought to be ashamed.
But this is Jamaica, and I have to be careful, as the facts are not considered politically correct. The Government has been trumpeting job creation and small business start-up, but where is the venture capital and the market viability? The Government's low, to me, was to tell graduates to look overseas for jobs. When you export the most productive sector of your population what will happen to the country?
Call me what you may, but the reality staring at us is that Jamaica is on the brink of civil unrest and the Government needs to act quickly. Unfortunately, no one cares to check the facts as we're too busy celebrating that which is not real.
Okeino Robinson
Greater Portmore, St Catherine
okeino.robinson@gmail.com
Stop celebrating falsehoods
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