Just over two years ago, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), under the leadership of Bruce Golding, took over the running of the country from the People's National Party (PNP). I am a supporter of neither party and, in fact, didn't vote in the last election, but if you ask people who know me, they would swear I was a Labourite, based on the views I express.

Taking into account things like Trafigura, the toll road sell-out, the Jamaica Public Service sell-out, highway cost overruns and the continued subsidy of Air Jamaica at the expense of taxpayers, among a host of other things, I could not see myself supporting the PNP. The impression I got was that people were not even bothering to attempt to cover up certain things.

One would have thought that having had 18 long years to see all the mistakes and what was being done wrong, Bruce and his team would have taken corrective measures from day one to change the status quo, much like we saw Barack Obama doing when he assumed office in the United States.

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At least four days out of every workweek someone calls the talk shows to complain about the service at the Registrar General's Department (RGD). If Golding cannot organise to fix something as simple and straightforward as that, what chance is there of him dealing with an entire country, especially in the current state Jamaica is in and with the world recession now on?

If I owned a bakery and the complaints were anywhere near the number like for the RGD, there is no way the manager could still be in a job, much less get an award.

Few can be as disappointed in the prime minister as I am, and maybe he should consider a public- relations job instead, as being articulate is good, but not enough for the current job. Maybe Seaga, whom Jamaicans love to hate so much, was right on the money when he said he saw no worthy successor in the JLP.

I am, etc.,

ROBERT MITCHELL

mitcib@yahoo.ca

Box 191

Christiana PO

Manchester