Now we know for sure

Dear Editor,

Please tell me that I was not hearing correctly that it was reported that the former Mayor of Lucea Shernet Haughton has said that if she is forced to resign, she is going to, as it were, spill the beans about other councillors and their alleged corrupt, if not criminal, activities.

What else do we need to convince us that our country is in a sickening downward spiral from which it is going to be difficult to recover?

I think a large portion of our population has long been convinced that this is how things are in local government, and by extension central government. But now we have one of the players actually admitting it without, probably, realising that this is what she was doing.

It would be an exercise in futility to try and list the number of reports on questionable activities and behaviours by our politicians (note I did not say public servants) because they go back almost to the beginning of our political independence.

If the comment attributed to the former mayor is true, then therein lies a cautionary tale: We all do it; we all know it is being done; but we cover for each other on both sides of the political divide.

So this, then, is really the Jamaican reality What a shame.

Stephen Harrison

St Mary

stepharrison28@gmail.com