Dear Editor,

Every now and then a gem of a thought falls from the lips of our political leaders. This time it was from Senator Marlene Malahoo-Forte. A few days ago the senator remarked that we should repeal laws that we cannot enforce.

Soon after, Senator Mark Golding went to the Senate and began the process of doing so. So if you are into obeah you won’t have to worry about being flogged. Seems reasonable. Since we cannot enforce the wearing of helmets by motorcyclists, then we should repeal that law and also the law against urinating in public, a favourite pastime of Jamaican men.

Well, we should repeal the Obeah Act since we cannot enforce flogging, but before doing so we need to allow the minister of education one last chance to have an obeah bath. They say that bad luck is worse than obeah, but the education minister is having too much bad luck.

First, he labelled the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) as the “apartheid of the education system”, then there were dismal results in both English and mathematics at CSEC. After this came the bookmarker affair where the minister’s image was superimposed on the Jamaican flag, then Hurricane Sandy damaged schools, and finally one of his ministry’s consultants, Dr Johnston, is comparing bad sex with remembering your first teacher. Is this all bad luck or is someone obeahing him? The minister should stay close to former Prime Minister Edward Seaga and current Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller who loves to “tun har roll”.

Mark Clarke

Siloah, St Elizabeth

mark_clarke9@yahoo.com