| Sherilla Gordon, Deputy Quarterly Editor Tuesday, September 13, 2005 |
Last Tuesday, almost all regular September activities were disrupted. Jamaica Urban Transit Company buses were pulled of their routes, businesses were closed, schools suspended and regrettably, a police officer was shot and injured while another man was shot dead.
I agree with the Jamaica Labour Party that the cost of living in Jamaica is too high, but I disagree with the extremities of some of the demonstrations. It is full time that the government wakes up and not only listens to the cries of the people, but ease the enormous burdens that many of them have to carry. Aren't two of the roles of government to control price and incomes, and regulate business, whether public or private, if they are acting against the interest of the general public?
In my opinion, the Jamaican government is ineffectively performing these roles. I have to agree with popular dancehall entertainer, Vybz Kartel, when he says "everyting except dead people a raise" in his single Emergency. Prices are on the rise, with no current indication of ceasing. Bus fares, oil, chicken, electricity and soon to come, water and telephone services.
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