Dear Editor,
Opposition Leader Andrew Holness and party Chairman Robert Montague are talking nonsense when they say that the core value of the JLP is the empowerment of poor people, expressed in 1943 as the desire "to create a new deal for labour in this country".
I do not know where Holness got the statement he claimed Bustamante made, but I am sure it must have been written after 1962 when ‘Busta’ was letting things go.
So Holness is wrong to say the party seeks a balanced or a meritocratic society. When we have achieved more social and economic development we can talk like that.
A mass party like the JLP exists to serve the poor and the humble, and if working-class Jamaicans cannot be assured that they are at the top of the JLP agenda, the party will be forever in Opposition.
Read the account of the 1943 launching, Andrew!
Orville Brown
Bronx, New York
Opposition Leader Andrew Holness and party Chairman Robert Montague are talking nonsense when they say that the core value of the JLP is the empowerment of poor people, expressed in 1943 as the desire "to create a new deal for labour in this country".
I do not know where Holness got the statement he claimed Bustamante made, but I am sure it must have been written after 1962 when ‘Busta’ was letting things go.
So Holness is wrong to say the party seeks a balanced or a meritocratic society. When we have achieved more social and economic development we can talk like that.
A mass party like the JLP exists to serve the poor and the humble, and if working-class Jamaicans cannot be assured that they are at the top of the JLP agenda, the party will be forever in Opposition.
Read the account of the 1943 launching, Andrew!
Orville Brown
Bronx, New York