Ensuring accountability and accepting responsibility

THE EDITOR, Sir:

IN OTHER countries when Prime Ministers, Ministers of Government and other public officials fail to perform, or, are alleged to be linked to corruption, they resign. Not so in Jamaica. Ours are a different breed of leaders who insist, shamelessly, to hang on to power.

In the face of scandals, cover-ups and suspicions these persons refuse to withdraw in dignity. Perhaps that is one of the reasons we have lost many of the values which should have kept us as a civil society. Daily we reward and endorse non-performance and lack of accountability. When was the last time someone stepped aside because they took responsibility for their mistakes or error in judgement?

I am, etc.,

MARK McKENZIE

Relay Avenue

Kingston 20

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