THE EDITOR, Sir:

THERE IS a suspicious and stupefying argument going around, taking a swipe below the belt at Golding. "Don't trust Golding" and when asked why, the answer: He left the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), formed the National Democratic Movement, then returned to the JLP and became its leader. My question is, what evil has he done?

We should see him as a man of vision, because he left the JLP when all hell broke loose within the party at that time. This attitude should be attributed to someone else.

He never squandered the Jamaicans' taxes; he has never abused the country's resources; he has never run with it because no government wants to lose any election and we all will have to come together and fix it. He has never let foreigners laugh us to the bank with Jamaican taxpayers' money; he has never been involved in scandal and corruption. What a world we are living in! The zinc scandal, the Iran sugar deal scandal, the furniture scandal, the National Solid Waste scandal, the National Housing Development scandal, the Sandals Whitehouse scandal and even the Trafigura scandal.

Yet, these tired people with no plan of development for production are to be trusted after we found them untrustworthy for 18 long years? But Golding, who left the JLP and returned to the JLP, is not to be trusted? Come on Jamaicans, come on media houses, come on journalists, come on pollsters, let us be fair and stop the hypocrisy.

I am, etc.,

RAPHAEL MYERS

myers_lyndon@hotmail.com

Vineyard, Black River P.O.

St. Elizabeth