THE EDITOR, Sir:
Stephen Vasciannie's consternation at the poor turnout for the recent CCJ conference at UWI (Gleaner, May 17) was somewhat overdone. I was one of those persons who knew of the conference (only because I entered the campus that week and was force-fed a flyer) and elected not to attend.
My reason was simple. Insofar as this issue is concerned, I am no longer interested in participating in the national pastime of substituting talk for action on matters that have already been talked to death. I will not listen to another biased and bitter anticipatory critique of a Court (CCJ) that does not yet exist nor to anymore slavish fawning over a court (Privy Council) that, for the overwhelming majority of us Jamaicans, does not exist.
I am now in waiting mode. I am waiting for the talk to die down. I am waiting for the inevitability of the CCJ to become real. I am waiting for a Court to which all Jamaicans can appeal to commence its work so that I may criticise the court (or its founding principles) if and when a decision-making or systemic flaw appears.
Until then, I am glad to read that the talk shops continue to be patronised by talkers and those officials obliged by dint of their jobs to be there.
I am etc.,
GORDON ROBINSON
robinson@cwjamaica.com
69 Lady Musgrave Road
Kingston 10
Via Go-Jamaica
