THE EDITOR, Sir:
I READ WITH interest, the Letter of the Day published Friday, April 15, written by Pastor Wesley Boynes, and have heard him being taken to task by one media host and a subsequent misguided caller.
I had to wonder if they read the same letter that I read. I would like to use this medium to express my 100 per cent support of what the pastor wrote.
Every nuance gets a ditto or even an amen from me and my friends who have discussed this issue.
I represent the poor country folks living in the hills of rural Jamaica in a village considered to be one of the 'free' villages (acknowledged only during the Emancipation celebrations).
I, too, wondered if the money spent for three days of celebration couldn't have been used to honour the Prime Minister in a more nationalistic way ways which would be long remembered even many years to come.
I, too, would like to implore all privileged persons to be more of your brother's keepers. Share your blessings!
We the have-nots are not asking for hand-outs but certainly you do not expect us to sit back for much longer and watch as the rich get richer and showcase their status around and about while the poor get poorer, especially after hearing the finance minister's budget.
But I believe the problem is that Pastor Boynes well-intended letter has struck a chord in these narrow-minded people who are really only self-serving. The Prime Minister had better take note of that.
I am a Christian and I had to chuckle at the responses to this letter as I realise that the nation is for the most part still 'blind' and we certainly do not behave as visionaries either.
We are blind because our focus is not on God or the things of God or, more apt, the ways of God.
Why not use this money to do a greater good and honour the Prime Minister, in doing so (I go further to say that the PM could have suggested it too since these were not all 'surprise' affairs).
I am so tired of the hypocrisy in this country. It is a cancer that is eating our very souls. We are like the Pharisees mentioned in the Bible.
But I thank God that 'this too shall pass'!
I am, etc.,
NATALIE BORELAND
nfboreland@hotmail.com
Sturge Town,
