Dear Editor,

This is not the time to seek political mileage. This is the time for unity to defeat the common enemies of the problems in the economy and the problems of crime, while giving thanks that we have cerebral men, Peter Phillips and Peter Bunting, and perhaps the best ever commissioner of police, Owen Ellington, at the helm.

As a lifetime student of economics and mathematics, I know neither economic progress nor any other progress that can be represented as a straight line. And as that great mathematician, Playfair, said: A straight line cannot be defined. We must therefore expect fluctuations and focus on the positives, such as Kingston being among the most livable cities on this planet. The real prospect exists in inflows of foreign investments in tourism and the logistics hub, as money will go where more can be made. We can looh forward to real development in a shift to the culture of growing what we eat and eating what we grow, the innovative plan by D&G to take agriculture to unprecedented heights, and as one thing bears on the other, the increase in construction of houses, rapid rise in levels of employment, et cetera.

I think above all, our greatest consolation is that God, the Creator of heaven and earth and all things therein, loves Jamaica. He made it one of the most beautiful places on earth and, like sleep, it is loved from pole to pole.

Owen S Crosbie

Mandeville

oss@cwjamaica.com