PNP Manifesto puts Vision 2030 at risk

Dear Editor,

I read the People’s National Party’s (PNP) manifesto/developmental plan 2016 thoroughly and I have a bit of developmental confusion which needs to be cleared in my head fundamentally.

When I juxtapose the PNP manifesto 2016 to Vision 2030 (Jamaica’s National Development Plan) I have some simple questions:

1 Why use the term First World/Third World (political anti-developmental terms outdated 25 years ago)?

2 These terms are not found in the Vision 2030 National Plan for a good reason. Does the PNP know why?

3 Is The PNP returning Jamaica to a non-developmental era of “First/Third World” thinking and abandoning the National Development Plan Vision 2030, which projects Jamaica will move from a developing country to a developed/advanced country by 2030?

Since the present PNP Administration is suggesting, euphemistically or subliminally, that we must move back into this anti-development era, then Vision 2030 could be at serious risk. Perhaps the prime minister or one of her representatives could give a quick response to my concerns before February 25, 2016.



Charles De Montague

charlesdemontaque@yahoo.co.uk