The Editor, Sir:

Mr. Golding's response to the new PNP ads is interesting, to say the least. This is coming from a man who decided to avoid the high road and base his entire campaign message on the cunning and slightly juvenile twisting of the Prime Minister's words, "Not changing no course". So, for him to now jump up indignantly and shout "Not fair!" when the same is done to him seems a little ridiculous.

But this trend of twisting people's words seems to be the new trend in attacking the current administration. Just look at how Dr. Horace Dalley's casual suggestion of making the KPH a self-administrated body was turned into allegations that he intended to privatise the hospital. A big hullabaloo ensued, of course, which is precisely what the Government's opposers were hoping for.

What I'd like to know is, who is going to pay for the JLP's long list of promises that seems to grow with every new speech? Are we really expected to put our trust in a party whose central focus is to derail the current Government by the clever misuse of words? Shouldn't the focus be on the Jamaican people, the economy, the country as a whole? An attempt to appease us, almost as an afterthought, is the guarantee of free education, or tuition, whatever they last promised.

The JLP must begin to substantiate its promises with something other than off-colour advertising, or they are going to lose this election.

I am, etc.,

K. WILMOT

karenwlmt@aol.com