THE EDITOR, Sir:Permit me space in your newspaper to express these thoughts.
Competence or knowledge without vision breaks technocrats, hence the defeat of the Peter Phillips-led "Solid As A Rock" campaign. Virtue without vision and knowledge breaks ideologies, hence the success of the Portia Simpson Miller-led "Team Portia" campaign.
I beg to differ on the ascendancy of Mrs. Simpson Miller, to the highest office of leadership in the country, because yet again, Jamaica has denied itself a leader suitable for the times.
DEMAGOGUERY
With due respect, Sir Alexander Bustamante, despite his immense popularity with the masses was not the best leader for Jamaica at the time he was elected Prime Minister of Jamaica. One must understand that vision without virtue and knowledge breeds demagoguery.
I must say that whosoever becomes the next Prime Minister of Jamaica, I must and will respect, even though I have my reservations.
Jamaica needs the best composition of leaders at this time in our history, and leadership in its truest form is the perfect balance of competence, vision and virtue, which I am yet to see in the complex political landscape of Jamaica.
The delegates allowed popular sentiments and emotions with a certain amount of needs and wants to carry them away in their choice for party president, and the Members of Parliament with their proverbial hands tied fell in line.
PROGRAMME DERAILED
One must remember that the Reggae Boyz raised the hopes of the nation in 1998 by their historic qualification for the World Cup. This programme has been derailed and is a shadow of its former self.
As a nation, let us not be carried away by emotional sentiments, personalities with mass appeal or 'dancehall politics'.
Let us be held spellbound and influenced by competent, visionary and virtuous leadership, which can lead this nation out of the economic, social and spiritual quagmire that it is presently in.
I am, etc.,
LEON RAMSAY
Pastor, Centre of Hope
Ministries
100 Barbados Road
Kingston 8
