You said in your editorial "Rather than taking place between protagonists in a semi-judicial setting, a review of the economic policies of the period would better be left to academics and analysts whose insights would inform current and future policy" (Monday, May 25, 2009). It could not be said better.

The object of the enquiry is not to establish that outcome, however. The question of interest is how the enquiry will be funded. A Government that was recently minded to tax reading material and salt due to the dire financial position we are in, could not now be using my tax dollars to fund a project which is clearly designed to provide political advantage.

It is now 10 years since the collapse of the banking system, and I contend that the financial controls which were put in place saved us from the international meltdown now taking place.

What we have in place now is not an administration interested in collaborative effort to tackle the problems of the country, but rather one whose motive is essentially the destruction of the Opposition at all cost. This perhaps is how the system works.

What is, however, troubling is that the party now in Opposition, once the soul of the people, is now a mere shadow of itself, reclusive and perhaps moribund. This is the tragedy in which we find ourselves.

I am, etc.,

LINFORD PHILLIPS

Kingston