Dear Editor,

As we approach another general election, I take this opportunity to share my hope for a peaceful political campaign. People must be made to understand that the better political campaigns are not centred on trivial name-calling and mockery.

Instead, it should present a viable option to chart the improvement of the nation coupled with what the other parties or Opposition have done or failed to do in the supposed quest for nation building.

Many of our citizens are not cognisant of the fact that the violence that they are sometimes encouraged to carry out for the benefit of politicians is inimical to their own interests. Time and again we see and hear of situations in which citizens are valued by their elected officials only when there is an impending general election. Afterwards, they are forgotten for years.

It is high time that our political parties provide candidates who are willing and able to carry out the work which will deem them worthy of votes, as opposed to engaging in any archaic tribal politics which proves to be of no benefit to our country.

Angilee Dobson

Savannah-la-Mar, Westmoreland

angidobson@gmail.com