THE EDITOR, Sir:
"WORK IS Love made visible". I believe that the goal of all work should be the general good of society. Work then is a blessing; work is prayer.
Jamaica would not be a poor country if every able-bodied citizen did a fair day's work consistently. I refrain from working on Labour Day because I work hard all year long.
The greatest challenge facing Jamaica today is economic empowerment for its citizens through the creation of worthwhile employment opportunities for all who are able and willing to work.
Those persons who now do token work on Labour Day ought, instead, to make every other work day of the year a day of productive labour so that Labour Day may in future revert to being a celebration of the achievements of labour, which it ought rightly to be, instead of being a feeble and half-hearted attempt to render token public service.
Most men work in order to live; I live in order to work. My goal, my work, my destiny is to create a business enterprise which shall become a national workshop dedicated to the growth and welfare of Jamaica and in so doing to promote national development and to effect social amelioration: to create "A Just Society with a Sense of Destiny".
The work we do is the contribution we make to society for the privilege of being here and partaking of the fruits of the Earth. The more work we do to help others the greater our entitlement to a share of the world's bounty. Those who take but give absolutely nothing in return are parasites who do not deserve a place in society.
I am, etc.,
WIDE AWAKE
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Kingston 4
