The Editor, Sir:

I am writing to express my disgust with some of those persons who have been selected to conduct the country's business. Having read the article titled 'Naughty, naughty, Warmington!' Portia says he is disgracing the family, published in The Sunday Gleaner dated April 6, 2008, I refuse to keep silent any longer about the behaviour of parliamentarians.

One would think that in a time like this when the country is experiencing 'severe recession' members of parliament would behave in a civil manner to discuss this situation by collaboratively putting their heads together to come up with the best solution to this problem, instead some of them 'clown' around seeking attention in ways that are unbecoming of supposedly 'sensible' 'educated' beings and joke about the seriousness of the country's business; and then downplay it as 'heckling', give me a break!

If they should ever understand how pressuring it is for the average Jamaican to survive each week to put food on the table for the family, they would rethink their purpose in Parliament. It is full time the persons who were selected to represent us do so meaningfully. It's a disgrace how those who you expect to be setting a positive example at that level of administration behave.

Provisions should be made for parliamentarians who disrupts constructive business in the House with their stupidity to be suspended and their salary withheld for the duration of the suspension.

I am, etc.,

MARJORIE McDONALD

Mackypryce@yahoo.com

Malvern, St. Elizabeth

Via Go-Jamaica