Dear Editor,
I am predicting that Bruce Golding will return unopposed as leader of the Jamaica Labour Party much sooner than you think.
"What is fi yuh cyaan be un-fi yuh" is a famous Jamaican saying that has been tested time and again. And, as I see it, Bruce Golding's resignation as the leader of the party and Opposition was never accepted by the people, so it was always going to be when, not if, he came back.
The impending resignation by Andrew Holness is the right opportunity for Golding to stage a resurrection, because there is no one else that is suitable for the job. And if Andrew Holness is, according to both pollsters, the preferred choice to Portia Simpson Miller, can you imagine how desperately unhappy the people are and what a Bruce Golding-led party would do to the PNP whenever the elections are called?
The PNP has laid down a perfect "election wicket" for the JLP to bat on, and they should pick up a feast of seats, thanks, in part, to the rigid IMF programme and the foolish slogan "I love the poor".
When I was growing up, my mother always kept telling us that to be poor is a crime, and when I see what is happening to the poor today in Jamaica, she was very right.
Ken Spencer
Kingston 8
'What is fi yuh cyaan be un-fi yuh'
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I am predicting that Bruce Golding will return unopposed as leader of the Jamaica Labour Party much sooner than you think.
"What is fi yuh cyaan be un-fi yuh" is a famous Jamaican saying that has been tested time and again. And, as I see it, Bruce Golding's resignation as the leader of the party and Opposition was never accepted by the people, so it was always going to be when, not if, he came back.
The impending resignation by Andrew Holness is the right opportunity for Golding to stage a resurrection, because there is no one else that is suitable for the job. And if Andrew Holness is, according to both pollsters, the preferred choice to Portia Simpson Miller, can you imagine how desperately unhappy the people are and what a Bruce Golding-led party would do to the PNP whenever the elections are called?
The PNP has laid down a perfect "election wicket" for the JLP to bat on, and they should pick up a feast of seats, thanks, in part, to the rigid IMF programme and the foolish slogan "I love the poor".
When I was growing up, my mother always kept telling us that to be poor is a crime, and when I see what is happening to the poor today in Jamaica, she was very right.
Ken Spencer
Kingston 8
'What is fi yuh cyaan be un-fi yuh'
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