THE EDITOR, Sir:
THE COUNTRY is swamped in decadence - every corner, every curve, every strait, the people's buildings, the people's departments, the people's streets, the people's electricity supply, the people's water supply, the people's garbage collection. I could go on and on forever.
Even the party that has formed the Government for over a decade has descended into decadence.
I am still wondering if the Government led by P.J. Patterson realises that the people of our country are fed up with what's happening to us. Yet the Government has the gall to tell us that they are doing a wonderful job.
Why can't they look around them and see what they have done and are still doing to us all and the physical country?
Yes, it's fine we have a toll road and a couple of yes-men around who are caught up, blinded as they are, by the get-rich-quick mentality and opportunity and only because they are yes-men.
WHO IS TO BLAME?
That leads us to realise why most of us pursue a better education only to migrate at the earliest opportunity, thus depriving our dear country of our best endeavours and talents.
Who is to blame? None other than our visionless, decadent, misguided leaders.
Decadence is the true gauge of a leader's ability to build and make a country's people happy, good-looking and prosperous.
When that takes charge, it means simply everything has run down, gone from bad to worse.
But when nothing lasts forever and it is up to us the people to change things and make things better all round.
The poverty that invades the country at this very moment is enough that all of us should hold down our heads in shame.
If we cannot be proud of the basics, what have we got to be proud of? Our own little toll road and our couple of high-rise buildings?
Oh for a better Jamaica, not more decadence. I do cry for thee, Jamaica.
I am, etc.,
RONEY G. HAMILTON
Walderston P.O.
Manchester
