Dear Editor,
Unfortunately we have had a sprinter as head of government for the last four years, why not try an architect? By the way, when last have you seen Germany’s leader Angela Merkel or Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf doing knee lifts or sprinting leaving everyone behind. They leave their sprinting for intellectual races.
The former prime minister almost conceded victory, but at the last moment Portia Simpson Miller had to spoil it. She said that she wanted Samson, Hercules and Ulysses, strong men, not strong-armed men, to review the recounts in marginally won constituencies. It seemed unimaginable that she had lost.
This general election win gives new meaning to the term “winning by the skin of your teeth”. But the People’s National Party (PNP) campaign was designed to lose, no one could explain why, with a plethora of achievements, the PNP kept off-message and insisted on concentrating on dirt and innuendos. Perhaps Dr Peter Phillips was scared of the prime minister asking him to touch his toes, do some knee lifts, or worse, some push-ups. The man who passed 10 straight International Monetary Fund tests is the “biggest loser” in this political campaign.
But enough on the new Opposition, the new prime minister will have his hands full. This victory will require that Andrew Holness, his party and the Opposition be disciplined, focused, and committed to the never-ending tasks. There is no room for bitterness or boasting. This Government faces an unenviable task, but the opportunity to unify Jamaica has never been better.
“No backbencher no deh again!” Each MP becomes a critical component for nation-building. We don’t need more than a gang of one to upset the apple cart. The opportunity for both Government and Opposition to coalesce around projects and policies to enhance the development of Jamaica has never been better. Only God could have scripted this result any better.
Finally, The Economist once stated, “The Jamaican economy should by right be booming. The island is just a 90-minute flight away from the United States, the world’s biggest market, with which it shares a language. It is on the shipping route to the Panama Canal and has a spacious natural harbour in Kingston. It is politically stable, without the ethnic tensions that have driven other Caribbean nations.” Andrew Holness’s message, from “From Poverty to Prosperity”, almost sounds like Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew’s, “From Third World to First”. This is an idea whose time has come.
Mark Clarke
Siloah PO, St Elizabeth
mark_clarke9@yahoo.com
Unfortunately we have had a sprinter as head of government for the last four years, why not try an architect? By the way, when last have you seen Germany’s leader Angela Merkel or Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf doing knee lifts or sprinting leaving everyone behind. They leave their sprinting for intellectual races.
The former prime minister almost conceded victory, but at the last moment Portia Simpson Miller had to spoil it. She said that she wanted Samson, Hercules and Ulysses, strong men, not strong-armed men, to review the recounts in marginally won constituencies. It seemed unimaginable that she had lost.
This general election win gives new meaning to the term “winning by the skin of your teeth”. But the People’s National Party (PNP) campaign was designed to lose, no one could explain why, with a plethora of achievements, the PNP kept off-message and insisted on concentrating on dirt and innuendos. Perhaps Dr Peter Phillips was scared of the prime minister asking him to touch his toes, do some knee lifts, or worse, some push-ups. The man who passed 10 straight International Monetary Fund tests is the “biggest loser” in this political campaign.
But enough on the new Opposition, the new prime minister will have his hands full. This victory will require that Andrew Holness, his party and the Opposition be disciplined, focused, and committed to the never-ending tasks. There is no room for bitterness or boasting. This Government faces an unenviable task, but the opportunity to unify Jamaica has never been better.
“No backbencher no deh again!” Each MP becomes a critical component for nation-building. We don’t need more than a gang of one to upset the apple cart. The opportunity for both Government and Opposition to coalesce around projects and policies to enhance the development of Jamaica has never been better. Only God could have scripted this result any better.
Finally, The Economist once stated, “The Jamaican economy should by right be booming. The island is just a 90-minute flight away from the United States, the world’s biggest market, with which it shares a language. It is on the shipping route to the Panama Canal and has a spacious natural harbour in Kingston. It is politically stable, without the ethnic tensions that have driven other Caribbean nations.” Andrew Holness’s message, from “From Poverty to Prosperity”, almost sounds like Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew’s, “From Third World to First”. This is an idea whose time has come.
Mark Clarke
Siloah PO, St Elizabeth
mark_clarke9@yahoo.com