I agree with Devon Dick that the behaviour of those parliamentarians was unbecoming. But I'm not so sure that he is being fair in using his letter to call on KD Knight for an apology to Dorothy Lightbourne.

I saw the clip on TV. In my view, Senator Lightbourne abused certain well-publicised facts in a charge she hurled at Knight that he was "the same man who used badwords to his own party leader". Now every Jamaican knows what we mean when we say 'bad words' and Knight might be faulted for many things but the public use of 'bad words' does not appear to be among these.

Public utterances

What is perhaps noticeable from media reports of his public utterances, in and out of Parliament, is that he has a certain facility with words, often used to put down his opponents. More recently it seems that Senator Lightbourne has been at the receiving end. But while two wrongs can never make a right, is she blameless in all of this to the extent that she is now owed an apology for what transpired on the day in question? The evidence, in no way, supports such a contention.

I am, etc.,

CLARE A. FORRESTER

Kingston 6