PNP on low road

Opposition leader Portia Simpson Miller and the PNP have again chosen the low road. They oppose but provide no solutions and no alternatives. Although I, too, think some of these new taxes are ill-conceived - I mean have we not already thrashed out why GCT on computers is a bad idea?

But must we really tie up the Jamaican people in town-hall meetings to complain? How about town-hall meetings to explain the policy differences between the two main parties and the alternative solutions the PNP is offering. How about town-hall meetings for acknowledging its past failures and announcing the new directions it intends to pursue to win back the minds and hearts of the Jamaican people?

It seems, as Claude Clarke noted in his article of Sunday, April 26, that the PNP under its present leadership is unable to renew itself and do things in a different more progressive way.

Instead of protesting and playing with people's emotions, spend your time telling us how you would get us out of this mess and why you are the ones to do it.

- Nimal Amitirigala amitirig@gmail.com

Annoyed with Portia

I am greatly annoyed by Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller. None of the parties is better, but when Simpson Miller is coming to say to us we should wear black in this heat, while she is being driven in her air-conditioned SUV, to show that we are demonstrating, she is a hypocrite to the greatest extent. I am used to high prices and taxes because of the PNP.

I am saying to her no longer can she and her party treat the Jamaicans like puppet on strings and tell us what to do. I am wearing full white to suggest to her to try and work on improving the lives of Jamaicans by working alongside the ruling party.

I am not for any party but all I want in this country where I was born and am living is for peace to reign, and stop playing political games and trying to brew trouble where none is needed.

- S. Johnson bjayjm@hotmail.com, Portmore

Counterproductive tax

I am in total agreement with Portia Simpson's appeal for a show of protest regarding the imposition of GCT on computers, computer peripherals and some printed educational materials. It is not the avenue to take and will prove counterproductive.

It will diminish the efforts to improve the educational sector which is very imperative at this point and time of our development. We must roll back the proposed GCT on these items.

- Frank Hill, Red Hills, St Andrew