THE EDITOR, Sir:THOSE PEOPLE who own the means of production along with the middle-class in Montego Bay, should endeavour to enhance the development of the less fortunate in that city during 2006.
If our second city is to be successful and get out of the quagmire of mediocrity, then the capitalists and middle class will have to begin to unite and motivate the working class and lumpen proletariat to achieve financial independence.
Our working-class citizens need those who will seriously and wholeheartedly look out for their interest. At this time also, the reality of the number of unemployed who become alienated from society to carry out their criminal activity must be addressed.
More education and employment must be provided in order to stop them from becoming notorious.
It is full time now for the stimulation and motivation of wealth creation for the working class so that upward mobility will come their way to have a better lifestyle.
For too long our human resources have been neglected and not given the kind of attention needed. The class division is evident in Montego Bay and as each class desperately protects its own interest, we wonder if the class struggle and conflicts will ever end.
Why can't we realise by now that it is better to teach a person to 'fish' instead of giving him 'fish' all the time which is not good for him?
Montegonians in the so-called upper class will have to definitely make a right-about turn and articulate what one of our National Heroes envisaged years ago that "United We Stand and Divided We Fall."
I am, etc.,
VALENTINE PEARSON
Cornwall Courts
c/o Sangster International Airport P.A.
Montego Bay
