It's not even about calling a spade a spade at this stage of the macabre game that is Jamaican politics.
Rather, as Montego Bay's Suffragan Bishop, the Most Reverend Charles DuFour pointed out at yesterday's church service to celebrate the life of the late Mr Renn Garfield Brown, it's about doing what's necessary to deal effectively with the monster that is murder.

It is against this background that this space will withhold the blistering reprimand that would, under normal circumstances, be in order for Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller in the face of her initial refusal to engage Prime Minister Bruce Golding's invitation to resume the Vale Royal talks.
According to the lead story in yesterday's edition of this newspaper, Mrs Simpson Miller greeted Mr Golding's invitation to resume the talks - aimed, as we understand it, at hammering out the way forward in this country's best interest - with a stony silence.

It's hardly the stuff of which the Christianity, which she has been known to profess with such passion, is made.
Yes, we are aware of the background against which Mrs Simpson Miller seems to be pitching, what in our a view is a pig-headed stance which this country can ill-afford at this time.

And truth be told, we believe her indignation at Mr Golding's inappropriate, now infamous 'termite jab' is somewhat justified.

After all, we're all human and nobody likes to be the butt of harsh criticism, whether it's deserved or not.
But in the face of what is currently taking place in this country - the murders and other signs of our decent into anarchy and disorder - we are hoping that now that Mrs Simpson Miller appears to have finally accepted that Jamaica is bigger than her ego and that of the PNP, she and Mr Golding will be able to find it within themselves to mend fences when they enter those critical talks.

We cannot keep feeding into the baser instincts of the murderously wicked and ignorant among us, with the negative melodrama of paradox and intrigue that played out at the National Arena on Wednesday.

Demonstrate, instead, some of the love, respect and mental integrity that must have been lacking on the part of those who changed the life of Dr Sonia Nixon-Brown forever on the night of December 21, 2007 when they shot her husband to death.

Of them and their savagery, we don't know what to make.
Of you, our leaders, we expect much, much better.

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