Is the PNP using coronavirus to score political points?

THE EDITOR, Madam:

AT A very critical and defining time in our country’s history, it appears that the People’s National Party (PNP) has sought to capitalise on the coronavirus to score political points. If this is so, then I cry shame, shame, shame! This is a time to exercise solidarity, not to play politics.

As a patriotic Jamaican, I felt a thrust of embarrassment, knowing that our people are exposed to a dangerous imported disease, that can even claim their lives, yet the PNP could be so myopic in their vision.

Mr Julian Robinson, the general secretary for the PNP, even worsen the situation, when he came on TVJ news last Sunday night trying to pretty up, or salvage the damage, by explaining such an act of inhumane behaviour on their part, at this critical juncture of a health disaster, as trying to encourage candidates to visit their constituencies.

I am confident that the government is making a strident effort in curtailing the spread of the virus. Looking at the global impact, I believe this is a fitting time for our government to refocus on our agronomy effort. We need to urge our farmers to produce, produce, produce! We need to become self-sustainable.

HEALING IN THE LAND

This is an opportune time to point our people back to the supreme God. As a people, and nation, we have gravely turned our backs on our Creator. But as 2 Chronicles 7:14, puts it, “If my people who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” God can save this country, and He can save the world from this coronavirus disease - COVID-19.

The blood of Jesus Christ is a safe antidote and sanitiser; it cannot fail if we turn from our evils and acknowledge Him, our Creator.

ALRICK DAVIS