Dear Editor,

Jamaica is at a turning point. After years of meaningful progress, safer communities, better infrastructure, and stronger institutions, we find ourselves confronted by an Opposition party that offers nothing but noise.

The People’s National Party (PNP), in its current state, is not fit to govern. It lacks direction, vision, and leadership. If we are serious about growth, then we must accept a hard truth: For Jamaica to grow, the PNP has to go.

While the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) focuses on building the future, expanding housing, education, infrastructure, and technology, the PNP is stuck in the past. Chanting, “Blood and Fire Comrades” and stirring up vibes might energise their base, but it does nothing for real people facing real issues.

When the Government introduced a national rural school bus programme to serve children, especially in remote and underserved areas, PNP leaders mocked it. PNP President Mark Golding called the buses “old”. Opposition spokesman on national security Peter Bunting went as far as to say they would “kill off poor people pickney”. In a country where reckless taxi driving has claimed countless young lives, those remarks are not just irresponsible, they are offensive. They are a slap in the face of grieving families and every Jamaican who welcomes safer, more inclusive transportation.

What about children with disabilities? Don’t they deserve accessible options too? Can a Probox accommodate a wheelchair? These buses are solving problems the PNP never even tried to address, but instead of supporting progress, the PNP insults it.

At the core of the issue is leadership, or the lack thereof. Golding continues to show that he is not ready to lead. He is disconnected, culturally tone-deaf, and absent when it matters. The PNP under his leadership doesn’t present itself as a government-in-waiting, it looks more like a protest group clinging to irrelevance.

Even more troubling is its tendency to oppose every government initiative, not out of principle, but simply for the sake of opposing. It criticises every road, every housing project, every effort to improve lives while offering no vision, no solutions, just noise, and Jamaicans are tired of it.

The PNP needs time to reflect, rebrand, and rebuild. It needs to reconnect with reality, develop proper policies, and reintroduce itself to a new generation of voters who expect more than “catchy slogans”. Until then, it does not deserve power, it deserves at least two more terms in Opposition.

This is not about party loyalty, it’s about nation-building. It’s about protecting the gains we have made and pushing forward with bold, responsible leadership.

We cannot move backward, we cannot gamble with Jamaica’s future.

Now is the time to choose what’s right, to choose unity over division, leadership over laziness, vision over vibes — now is the time to choose Jamaica.

Chenae Lord

chenae.lord@yahoo.com