Dear Editor,
When the Jamaican business sector collapsed under the stewardship of then-Finance Minister Omar Davies, in the PJ Patterson-led Government it left a very large hole in the employment pool. With us having not truly recovered, this has resulted in the lack of employment being the most worrisome matter facing the electorate ahead of the upcoming elections, according to the latest Don Anderson's polls, with a whopping 57 per cent not sure of where there next job-producing meal is likely to come from.
This leads me to the much-maligned and touted logistics hub.
Every now and then the Opposition spokesman on trade, Karl Samuda, raises the matter over the slow or no progress of the hub. I am sure that he knows that the whole idea of a hub located in Kingston started out as a dream trying to allay the great fears that had arisen from the aforementioned financial meltdown, as it promised many jobs, in fact, some people were of the view this would be an employment boom not seen since the discovery of bauxite in Jamaica.
We who knew better dismissed it as propaganda because the dream of a logistics hub, if it does not turn out to be a nightmare, takes many years to come to fruition as there has to be a convergence of many factors.
What I am proposing is that we provide the atmosphere to enable the hub to prosper. So, stop the naysaying, Samuda, because the majority of voters have already decided who they are voting for in the next general election.
Ken Spencer
Kingston 8
kensingtonspencer868@gmail.com
Let the hub be, Samuda!
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When the Jamaican business sector collapsed under the stewardship of then-Finance Minister Omar Davies, in the PJ Patterson-led Government it left a very large hole in the employment pool. With us having not truly recovered, this has resulted in the lack of employment being the most worrisome matter facing the electorate ahead of the upcoming elections, according to the latest Don Anderson's polls, with a whopping 57 per cent not sure of where there next job-producing meal is likely to come from.
This leads me to the much-maligned and touted logistics hub.
Every now and then the Opposition spokesman on trade, Karl Samuda, raises the matter over the slow or no progress of the hub. I am sure that he knows that the whole idea of a hub located in Kingston started out as a dream trying to allay the great fears that had arisen from the aforementioned financial meltdown, as it promised many jobs, in fact, some people were of the view this would be an employment boom not seen since the discovery of bauxite in Jamaica.
We who knew better dismissed it as propaganda because the dream of a logistics hub, if it does not turn out to be a nightmare, takes many years to come to fruition as there has to be a convergence of many factors.
What I am proposing is that we provide the atmosphere to enable the hub to prosper. So, stop the naysaying, Samuda, because the majority of voters have already decided who they are voting for in the next general election.
Ken Spencer
Kingston 8
kensingtonspencer868@gmail.com
Let the hub be, Samuda!
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