THE EDITOR, Sir: ON READING the article in your on-line paper, on the setting of rates for the tolls for the highways in Jamaica, I noticed that the price was said to be set to the "international" rate, and that it will be set to the equivalent in United States dollars. I would like to ask a few questions.
Is Jamaica not one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere? Employees' salaries are not matched to any United States or international rate? Why then should these oppressed people be asked to pay out at a rate that is higher than the rate at which they earn?
No one, no society, no citizen, should be asked to, or have to spend at an international or United State rate, when they do not earn at a international or United States rate. Who is wagging the dog?
I am, etc., HERBERT LINDSAY xzoticoil@hotmail.com Brooklyn New York Via Go-Jamaica
