Dear Editor,

As the heart-wrenching details unfold from the Finsac Enquiry of how the high-interest rate regime destabilised and shattered some families and relegated others to live in shame, one cannot help but ask if the Golding administration wants to make its mark with the passing of legislative changes in its current format to the Strata Act to transfer home ownership from one set of vulnerable people, to a group more favoured in society.

It was stomach-churning to hear Dr Omar Davies state that NCB was given preferred treatment, not unusual in a capitalist society.

It therefore makes one wonder whose interest is being served by the Golding administration to authorise the sale of strata units if owners default in making maintenance payment for 30 days. The present economic debacle in Jamaica (with more hardships to come) tells even the dead that further default in paying bills is imminent, as the very government will make the position of persons in their employment redundant with the prospects of finding other employment likened to finding a needle in a haystack.

There is inequity in what is happening in real terms by the proposal put forward by the government. Are we to understand that the government is embracing the idea of increasing homelessness that this situation will certainly create? Are they promoting the creation of more crime? Similarly, the lack of vision to provide for persons who the government knew would be deported has contributed to the almost out-of-control crime rate being experienced.

When the basic necessities of life cannot be met, people will move from one process to another in order to survive. Take, for instance, a person who has no family or friend and has started to live in an outside room of the relative of a “kind” person whom he meets on the street. One can easily map out what is likely to follow, because it is as predictable as night follows day.

Prime Minister Golding, there are many people who are walking time bombs. Kindly rethink your strategies. I join with Mr Cox from the Trafalgar Group to hope that good sense will prevail in this critical matter which has farreaching consequences. Does one have to be a prolific writer or an eloquent speaker to capture your attention? Forbid it not, because if that is true we are all in dire straits.

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs shows that the physiological must be met before others, like safety, love, belonging, esteem and selfactualisation where, interestingly, morality sits. Have you even looked at the crime statistics in detail? God alone can help us if things continue in this way.