As a boy growing in James Hill, Clarendon, I was the one who my grandmother would always send to church every morning to buy a loaf of bread or sometimes 'half a bread' to drink with a cup of orange leaf tea for breakfast.

She had to give me extra money to take to the shop because it was the norm for the price of bread to increase almost every week or sometimes two times per week without prior notice. This frustrated my grandmother and I am sure many more grandmothers were very frustrated too.

Those were the days of the effect of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the Jamaican public, and how many Jamaicans prayed for the end of borrowing relationship with the agency.

I was one of those who helped to say "bye-bye" to the IMF on that glorious Sunday in the National Arena in the 1990s.

No wonder most Jamaicans are fearful of the Government's returning to the IMF for money. Jamaicans are fearful of losing their jobs.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding needs to explain to Jamaicans how returning to the IMF for a loan will impact their lives and he needs to do it now.

I am, etc.,

WAYNE SIMMONDS

waynes90@yahoo.co.uk

Toronto, Canada