Dear Editor,
I was pleasantly reminded by your editorial of April 12, 2016 that today, April 14, is the 24th anniversary of the unprecedented Butch Stewart Initiative.
I am one of those who responded to the joint call by Dr Leahcim Semaj and Stewart and sold my paltry US$30 to the National Commercial Bank. For me, it was not about the money, but the spirit of hopefulness which the initiative generated among Jamaicans at the time.
This latest suggestion by Stewart to save the income tax incentive for those earning up to $1.5 million annually demonstrates that he still has the patriotic fervour and still feels for the suffering Jamaican people.
Even if it can’t work this time, I am still encouraged by the big-heartedness of a truly generous human being.
So on this anniversary date, I would like to use this medium to ‘big up’ Gordon “Butch” Stewart and Dr Leachim Semaj, and to say to them you make me proud to be a Jamaican.
Charmaine Ann-Marie Morgan
Golden Spring, St Andrew
charmamm@gmail.com
I was pleasantly reminded by your editorial of April 12, 2016 that today, April 14, is the 24th anniversary of the unprecedented Butch Stewart Initiative.
I am one of those who responded to the joint call by Dr Leahcim Semaj and Stewart and sold my paltry US$30 to the National Commercial Bank. For me, it was not about the money, but the spirit of hopefulness which the initiative generated among Jamaicans at the time.
This latest suggestion by Stewart to save the income tax incentive for those earning up to $1.5 million annually demonstrates that he still has the patriotic fervour and still feels for the suffering Jamaican people.
Even if it can’t work this time, I am still encouraged by the big-heartedness of a truly generous human being.
So on this anniversary date, I would like to use this medium to ‘big up’ Gordon “Butch” Stewart and Dr Leachim Semaj, and to say to them you make me proud to be a Jamaican.
Charmaine Ann-Marie Morgan
Golden Spring, St Andrew
charmamm@gmail.com