Call it the $4-m waste that it was

Dear Editor,

When Jamaicans are denied entry to a foreign country, be it Barbados, Trinidad, England, etc, they are simply sent home using their return ticket. No matter how Minister Peter Bunting tries to defend the waste of $4 million of taxpayers' funds to send Abu Bakr home on a private jet it does not wash. For, he is not the first deportee to "gwaan bad" when denied entry into a country. And the more the Bunting spins the talk the more suspicious and ridiculous he sounds.

Some people have even started wondering if the real story isn't that the Government owed the jet operator for previous trips that minsters take as they traipse all over the place and they had hoped to quietly slip in the payment using this ridiculous cover of the Abu Bakr story. To tell you the truth, even this made-up story sounds more plausible.

Then when you weigh this waste of $4 million of taxpayers money against the simultaneous salivating at the feet of Sagicor which had to underwrite the $4 million cost of purchasing fever scan machines to detect Ebola, you realise how pathetic what passes for governance in this country really is.

Joan E Williams

Kingston 10

gratestj@gmail.com

Call it the $4-m waste that it was

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