The Editor, Sir:

Your recent editorial advanced the notion that the People's National Party's (PNP) decision to nominate someone with dual citizenship (albeit Canadian) is immoral and cynical. Similarly, one of the letters to the editor charges that the PNP's action is unprincipled.

I must confess that I am having tremendous difficulty making a correlation between being immoral, cynical, and politically unprincipled, and making a decision that rests within the ambit of that which is legal and constitutionally acceptable.

What is immoral, cynical, and unprincipled is the occurrence of individuals (JLP and PNP past and present) participating in our electoral process who were flouting the Constitution.

Referring to Kenneth Rowe as a defector is to suggest that he is a traitor, renegade or turncoat, when in fact, he simply exercised an option afforded him in our democracy. Politics is rife with decisions that are predicated upon what is expedient. The PNP's response to the ruling of the appellate authorities is politically sound, expedient and constitutionally valid. The moral, cynical and unprincipled argument is baseless, and speculatively speaking, politically motivated.

I am, etc.,

DR RICHARD KITSON-WALTERS

kittywally@comcast.net

Baltimore, Maryland

The Editor, Sir:

In response to your March 13 editorial, as far as I can recall, the Opposition made a legal not a moral case, so where is The Gleaner coming from with a moral argument? The court has spoken, so we should all now be clear about what is legal.

For decades, the constitutional discussion, which also involves the Caribbean Single Market and Economy matter, has been allowed to sputter along, so we, by inaction, have brought this situation upon ourselves and those who stood in the way know themselves.

We have them to thank for this sorry path we have come to, but this has once again exposed our ambivalence as a people towards an independent Jamaica where so many can unashamedly talk out loud that basically we will accept in our Parliament to lead us, "any who will, may come".

I am, etc.,

JANET JOHNSON- HAUGHTON

jmjhau@hotmail.com