Dear Editor,

To be called “General”, “Teacher”, and even a “World Boss” is okay, but to be called a “dawg” or a “Bro Gad” isn’t cool.

According to the Urban Dictionary the slang dawg means close friends, while the Bro Gad means close brother.

I live in the ghetto, and using popular slangs doesn’t necessarily mean you’re being down to earth.

I saw comments from folks on Twitter saying they are voting in the next election because the social media handle for the prime minister was changed to Bro Gad for a day. Can any serious Labourites like myself take those type of voters seriously? Isn’t politics about issues, ideologies and values?

Andrew Holness is a new and different prime minister so he should stop following his predecessors by using slang and gimmicks to get followers and votes.

The People’s National Party (PNP) governed this country for over 18 years mostly using slangs and gimmicks; from “black man time” to “log on to progress” in 2002. It also won the 2011 General Election using the slang “Tun up di ting!”

Prime Minister Andrew Holness had over 75,400 followers when his Twitter handle was changed to Bro Gad, now it’s back to the regular handle he has 76,600 followers. I hope getting 1,200 new followers was enough, since Bro Gad was trending on Twitter. I guess our democracy will remain, as it were, run by gimmicks.

I guess the Twitter bubble, aka the mob, will tell a youngster like me to loosen up and stop overreacting, but I will not be shamed or silence.

Stop calling my prime minister Bro Gad.

Teddylee Gray

Ocho Rios, St Ann

teddylee.gray@gmail.com