After reading 'Golding's heart goes out to Haiti' published in your April 21 edition, it's hard to believe that our prime minister is a thinking man.

Since his election, which I supported, I have watched him make multiple ridiculous statements not befitting of the leader of a nation. None, however, reached the level of what he said about the vibrant Haiti-Jamaica gun trade.

Here is what he said: "I would feel uncharitable to burden President Préval now, with all of what he is going through to say 'look, Jamaica's priority is not to help you feed your people who are starving, but for you to deal with the guns that are coming to Jamaica'."

Ignorant of function

The first thing that comes to my mind is treason. I thought the job of Jamaica's prime minister first and primarily was to guarantee and secure the safety of the Jamaican people. By Golding's statement he obviously does not share that concept. He seems too ignorant of his prime ministerial function, at best. How can he say he is burdening Préval when it comes to protecting his (Golding's) own country?

Gun crime has defined Jamaica as the murder capital of the world, and if our prime minister refuses to fight this evil regardless of its source, then we are doomed. Our people will forever live in fear, our tourism industry will be crippled, our unemployment rate will skyrocket and eventually become like Haiti. Then what?

Hopefully, people will inform Golding that it was the Jamaican people who voted for him, not the Haitians, and if he is willing to put the Jamaican society at risk to accommodate the Haitians, then maybe Jamaica is not the country he should be leading.

I am, etc.,

C.R. HAMILTON

cha24389@yahoo.com

Brooklyn

New York