It is about time Jamaicans wake up to the fact that neither the Government nor the Opposition is capable of running the country. The Opposition has messed up so badly, that capable Jamaicans living overseas are scared to return and serve their country. We cannot get elected to public office, we are chastised and ridiculed when we get appointed to run organisations. Putting all aside this is the kind of behaviour that the Government supports, and this support seeps out into the community and poisons everyone.

As Jamaicans living overseas, we need a concerted effort to take back our country from those that seem to destroy it. We need to start organising from the grassroots. If we cannot get elected, we designate someone to be our man in Parliament until we get the laws changed. We ban every influence-peddler from Jamaica House or even setting foot at Gordon House. We clean up the streets of hooligans, ban the use of firearms, or even the act of owning it, even if it means sending the soldiers into every household to forcefully get them.

I am of the view that Jamaica can be saved, but where on earth will I find sixty like-minded individuals like myself to help take back the "Land of My Birth"? Mr Golding, you and your henchmen are a disgrace; Mrs Simpson Miller, you and your men are a disgrace as well.

I am, etc.,

John Casburn Tomlin

lovemylexuss@yahoo.ca

Toronto, Canada