The Editor, Sir:

I will vote for Portia Simpson Miller if she can do the following:

Ensure that, starting the year 2010, all Jamaicans will be entitled to a pension that is equal to the minimum wage.

Build by the year 2012 a polytechnic university serving the parishes of St. Elizabeth, Westmoreland, Hanover and St. James, specialising in the training of food processing, brewing technology, meal preparation and presentation, food packaging and retailing, construction and maintenance of food processing equipment, catering and restaurant operations and confectionary production.

Build a polytechnic university serving the parishes St. Thomas, Portland, St. Mary and St. Ann, specialising in small entertainment machinery design and construction, hill and mountain sports administration and design, tour design and administration, games and sports administration and design, furniture design and construction, gallery and museum management, bar and club management, beach and park design and management.

Construct a minimum of 1,000 new hotel rooms a year for the next five years.

Bring into being at least six 'accounting and bookkeeping' free zones in Kingston and St. Andrew within the next five years.

Bring into being at least five cribs (cradles) and coffin-kit construction free zones within the next five years.

Establish a minimum of 10 'walled, all full-service retirement villages' for expatriates within the next five years.

Establish at least three 'homes for the terminally ill and the bed-ridden' for expatriates within the next three years.

Remove import duty and export taxes on products made of precious metals and stones.

Remove import duty and export taxes on items of art and gallery supplies.

Flour intended to be used for commercial baking use must have at least five per cent local input.

I am, etc.,

BASIL FLETCHER

donovanfletcher@hotmail.com