THE EDITOR, Sir:
WE CANNOT leave the future of the country in the hands of the politicians. The main reason why we cannot leave it to them is that our brightest and most intelligent sons and daughters do not get to become Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition.
Instead the masses select the one with the most charisma. We have never, as far as I know, had a Mona MBA or a Harvard MBA as Prime Minister, or a Rhodes Scholar with a Ph.D. as Leader of the Opposition, and consequently, when they try to negotiate trade deals or formulate a bauxite levy strategy or out-think a summa cum laude from Yale in business negotiations, they are at a severe disadvantage, especially not having mastered the principles of negotiation.
We need brains, not charisma, to negotiate effectively. We need brains, not charisma, to communicate decisively. We need brains, not charisma, to formulate strategic trade deals beneficially. We need brains, not charisma, to think deductively and inductively. Charisma is for the uneducated masses who are lazy and live on their emotions which, unfortunately, describes most of the citizenry. Who has brainwashed and hoodwinked this country into believing that we need a charismatic prime minister instead of a brilliant person who can speak and communicate correctly?
Marcus Garvey called you a mighty people, where has your might gone? We need a prime minister who can stand and speak before the UN and pronounce words correctly.
Most of our politicians have never run a business successfully and thus when confronted with difficult choices they seek loans when they should be cutting costs.
Imagine if we had been buying five thousand shares of Alcoa every year since they became involved in our bauxite industry. We foolishly consumed the bauxite levy revenues when we should have been investing it in Alcoa stock.
Politicians scream about the price of oil yet have never put forward a strategy of investing into a Canadian or Trinidadian or Venezuelan oil company. We need to leave the politicians to their childish games and behaviour (fighting and shouting in Parliament), arguing over leadership positions and get to the serious business of securing retail markets for our products.
I am, etc.,
JOHN ANTHONY
ft3092@yahoo.com
Rosedale, New York
