The knee-jerk reaction from the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) to Prime Minister Bruce Golding's comments that the Opposition party is suffering from "intellectual depravity" and that "termites have infected their brains" was inappropriate. With all the scandals that are still affecting them, the intelligent thing the Opposition should do is to ignore Mr. Golding's comments, but no. Their reckless reaction served only to prove that they are sinking deeper into a cesspit of their own making - of defamation, denigration and denial.

It's hard to argue with the first-hand evidence of Mr. Golding's comment, but that didn't stop the PNP general secretary Donald Buchanan, one of the most ignorant and incompetent of those within the PNP, from shooting off his mouth and his party in the foot again. Reading the remarkable nonsense coming from the Opposition Leader Mrs. Portia Simpson Miller about no further discussions with the governing party at this time because of Mr. Golding's comments is so petty and childish, I don't know whether to laugh hysterically or cry.

I've lost count of the number of professional and educated Jamaicans at home and abroad who have now come to confess their great disappointment in Mrs. Portia Simpson Miller as leader of the PNP, etc., etc., and at last recognise her as a political wolf in sheep's clothing. Little wonder her fawning support in the PNP is turning to bitter 'disillusionment'.

- Cottrell Hyatt, cottrellhyatt@yahoo.co.uk, 14 Clermont Road, London