Dear Editor,
I think it is high time officials and supporters of the People’s National Party (PNP) accept the fact that Jamaica does not belong to the PNP. Just because P J Patterson was able to secure three consecutive wins at a time when technology was not as advanced and information was not so accessible does not give them the right to think that everybody in my sweet Jamaica is as gullible and ignorant as they perceive us to be.
I am a young, educated Jamaican who has been living in the United States for the last seven years. I have only had one opportunity to vote in my country and that was back in 2007 when the Bruce Golding-led Jamaica Labour Party booted the PNP out of office after nearly two decades of mismanagement, unfair distribution of wealth and downright corrupt handling of Jamaica’s resources. It has been most heartbreaking to watch the desecration of my beloved country over the years by one political organisation.
I cannot speak to Edward Seaga’s style of governance and leadership as I was born in 1984 and have only known the PNP to be the governing party of the country up to 2007 when they lost, and even then I only lived in Jamaica for an additional 18 months before I migrated with my wife and kids. What is more disturbing is that after just four short years in Opposition the PNP came back and deceived the country into believing that the JLP, and not their terrible self-serving decisions and wreckless policies, was responsible for the hardships people were facing — the nerve they have. Their arrogance, disrespect, disregard, and total dishonesty to and for the people of Jamaica know no bounds.
I wrote to the former minister with responsibility for information expressing my disappointment and hurt over her and her party’s handling of the affairs of my country. I am well aware of the fact that governing a country is no cake walk, and I am a very realistic individual who does not see the current Administration and prime minister as the Messiah or any miracle worker, but I do hope, pray and trust that they will not repeat the gross errors and perpetuate the many indiscretions of its predecessors.
In the same breath, I pray that Jamaica will give them a fair shot at leading the country; understanding that true change, reformation and transformation do not happen over a five-year term, especially when the job is one that is Jamaica after the battering she endured over the total of 30-something years of mismanagement by the PNP.
Rev Andre K Bennett EdD, ThD, DMin
andre2bennett1@gmail.com
I think it is high time officials and supporters of the People’s National Party (PNP) accept the fact that Jamaica does not belong to the PNP. Just because P J Patterson was able to secure three consecutive wins at a time when technology was not as advanced and information was not so accessible does not give them the right to think that everybody in my sweet Jamaica is as gullible and ignorant as they perceive us to be.
I am a young, educated Jamaican who has been living in the United States for the last seven years. I have only had one opportunity to vote in my country and that was back in 2007 when the Bruce Golding-led Jamaica Labour Party booted the PNP out of office after nearly two decades of mismanagement, unfair distribution of wealth and downright corrupt handling of Jamaica’s resources. It has been most heartbreaking to watch the desecration of my beloved country over the years by one political organisation.
I cannot speak to Edward Seaga’s style of governance and leadership as I was born in 1984 and have only known the PNP to be the governing party of the country up to 2007 when they lost, and even then I only lived in Jamaica for an additional 18 months before I migrated with my wife and kids. What is more disturbing is that after just four short years in Opposition the PNP came back and deceived the country into believing that the JLP, and not their terrible self-serving decisions and wreckless policies, was responsible for the hardships people were facing — the nerve they have. Their arrogance, disrespect, disregard, and total dishonesty to and for the people of Jamaica know no bounds.
I wrote to the former minister with responsibility for information expressing my disappointment and hurt over her and her party’s handling of the affairs of my country. I am well aware of the fact that governing a country is no cake walk, and I am a very realistic individual who does not see the current Administration and prime minister as the Messiah or any miracle worker, but I do hope, pray and trust that they will not repeat the gross errors and perpetuate the many indiscretions of its predecessors.
In the same breath, I pray that Jamaica will give them a fair shot at leading the country; understanding that true change, reformation and transformation do not happen over a five-year term, especially when the job is one that is Jamaica after the battering she endured over the total of 30-something years of mismanagement by the PNP.
Rev Andre K Bennett EdD, ThD, DMin
andre2bennett1@gmail.com