This is in response to the article 'Time for a change in the PNP' in your April 2 edition.

The changes that some people are speaking about should not be in the leadership. Why these calls? Is it because the leader is a woman, or because she does not have a PhD beside her name? Frankly, since Michael Manley left the party, 'Sister P' is the only person to speak of or seek to address the needs of the poor in Jamaica.

She had the National Hosing Trust move to to help the needy and was criticised by an economist who said she should not have touched that money. Now if you have money in the country, does it make sense to go outside and borrow at high interest rates?

The problem in the PNP is that there are too many PhDs and not enough people with common sense or knowledge of what is going on around them. The Jamaican people know of the party that has helped them before and will help them again.

I am, etc.,

GEORGE BREZHNEV

leonardo7k7@yahoo.co.UK

Swindown,

Wiltshire, UK