Think bigger than partisan squabbling

THE EDITOR, Sir: AS THE political squabbling continues between our political parties over the teachers’ salary increases, let me hasten to say that we have to move beyond the politics of it, or else it’s like we’re going up the down escalator. It only takes us back to where we started.

The People’s National Party (PNP) today is right where the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) was yesterday, and if the PNP wins the next general election, we will see the same counterarguments emanating from the JLP, and we will repeat the same thing years from now.

However, the same problem will always persist.

It’s a vicious cycle that was implemented by the global masters of deception and financial gangsters that have played Jamaicans like a fiddle and put us on a treadmill to nowhere.

We have to think bigger than partisan squabbling and see what these globalists are doing to us.

Most i mportant, we must come finally to the realisation that only Jamaicans can free Jamaicans.

Any philosophy that says let the foreign man come in and free us is a bogus philosophy.

And that is my greatest frustration with the leadership out of Jamaica – on both sides. They double-down on the same philosophy of dependence on foreign men and women.

They’re too quick to genuflect and trust the same people who’ve put us in the terrible position in the first place. No leader in Jamaica will ever be an effective leader if he/she doesn’t develop a much more expansive world view.

With an estimated four million Jamaicans living abroad with high disposable incomes and a demonstrated track record of excellent microeconomic per formance as it relates to remittances (US$2.5 billion last year alone), and an estimated seven million friends and lovers of Jamaica, based on our global presence, brand and culture, therein lies the solution!

It will take a visionary leader to engage t hese people on a macroeconomic level.

1. Engagement through effective outreach and communication.

2. Incentive-based initiatives like government bond issues where these people can see a return on their investments while lifting the country up. Patriotism alone ain’t gonna do it.

3. A global coalition of Jamaican sons and daughters, who are incentivised through accrued benefits to themselves, to sustain the coalition.

It’s not that hard. Marcus Garvey did it in 1920 with an old printing press!

“There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty”.

– Marcus Mosiah Garvey. 1921. PAUL HAYE Fairview, New Jersey