Dear Editor,

Jamaica is a nation facing perilous times, especially economically, socially, and with national security. Without any immediate intervention, we risk the country slipping into anarchy.

All that being said and understood, I register my deep dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller’s selective tongue where it concerns the state of our nation.

For months the media, civil society and the common man have voiced concerns about her silence, but she has finally broken it to clash with Opposition Leader Andrew Holness.

I refuse, as a progressive member of society, to accept this mediocre style leadership from these two. One decides to protest because of bus fares — because that is the highest priority — while the other breaks silence to cackle about petty political tribalism.

These two ‘leaders’ need to wake up, smell the proverbial coffee, and stop behaving as though they are in a vacuum. Jamaica needs strategic leadership, not pettiness. Jamaica needs strong representation, not standing in the rain against fare hikes nor boasting about who has the greater love for the poor. Can we just get it right?

Your behaviour, Holness and Simpson Miller, is tiresome and frankly distasteful. Stop occupying seats and spending public funds with little achievement to the common man. Jamaica has too much at stake to be left in such inappropriate hands.

Timothy Cawley

Kingston 8

cawley.timothy@gmail.com