I found the article in The Gleaner of June 29 titled 'Patterson to receive region's highest honour' quite enlightening and I wonder if the entire Jamaican population should not be thinking on these things, so to speak.

According to the article "former Prime Minister P. J. Patterson, an avid cricket fan, leaves the island tomorrow for the opening ceremony of the 30th meeting of the region's heads, where he will receive the Order of the Caribbean Community".

The real beneficiary

When one reads this article and recalls the comments made by a former minister of industry, Claude Clarke, in the article published in The Gleaner of June 14 titled 'CARICOM: killing us softly' and recall the over $300 million, which it was revealed last week that we now have to 'hug up' from the Cricket World Cup fiasco, one cannot but wonder if Patterson's term as prime minister of Jamaica was not overall more beneficial to Caricom than to Jamaica.

No wonder the honour!

I am, etc.,

JOAN WILLIAMS

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