Dear Editor,

Over the years, two things have become apparently very clear to me about Jamaican politics:

1. The JLP is very bad at being an Opposition, good at managing the country’s affairs, and does not have a PR team capable of highlighting the fact that it has the Jamaican people’s best interest at heart.

2. The PNP does far better when in Opposition than it does when managing the country’s affairs, and its spin doctors have the market pegged for convincing some of the Jamaican people that they are doing a good job, while continuing to malign the JLP at every opportunity.

People feed off negativity and will always gravitate towards anything negative, even lies, as long as it is made against something good.

The PNP PR is very good at selling negatives to the Jamaican people. “Vote PNP and nice times will return”, NEGATIVE! “The JLP wreck the place so we will have to fix it”, NEGATIVE!!

We have been witness to what can be considered reaching beyond treason by very high-ranking government officials of the PNP. Yet the JLP has failed to highlight as much as it seems to believe that it can fix the PNP’s many mistakes by winning an election, NEGATIVE!!

While some of us Jamaican people are enslaved with the job of shovelling the mountains the PNP has dished out, the present Opposition has failed miserably to motivate the people of Jamaica to rebel against incompetence and greed, which is the very platform of the PNP.

On August 20,2013, with an impending IMF test, Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips told PNP supporters at a meeting in Montego Bay that “there is no doubt that with all the progress that we were making on that road to achieve that mission, the four years of the Jamaica Labour Party set us back in the worst way that you can imagine.”

We were all witnesses to 18 1/2 years of stagnation and mutilation of the Jamaican economy by the PNP, yet Phillips had the gall to make such a ridiculous statement. It doesn’t take a genius to know that the art of distraction and the foundation for another “Blame the JLP” game is about to begin. The PNP’s loyalists and apologists have always been blind, deaf and dumb to its failings, yet very vocal at the least bit of speculation concerning negativity within the JLP. It leaves one to wonder where the priorities of the Jamaican masses lay.

Alex Jahkno

Kingston