Last Sunday's column by Esther Tyson had the following sentence in the third paragraph: "Mr. Golding's role model is Nelson Mandela whose task to build a united South Africa after apartheid pales in comparison to our Jamaican situation."

That should have read ".... Nelson Mandela who had the task of building a united South Africa after apartheid. The Jamaican situation however pales in comparison to South Africa's."

The error is regretted.