The two leading political parties, The Jamaica Labor Party and the Peoples National Party, should seek to show mature leadership at this delicate juncture in the country’s history. Given the total failure of Privatization on a global scale, the continuation of that policy in Jamaica will be catastrophic.  The basis of this unity must be premise on the understanding that the private sector as the engine of growth cannot withstand the fallout from this global crisis. The government must be the engine of this growth. The government was elected to serve and represent all the people of Jamaica not just the vested few.

The privatization championed by our ex prime minister. Mr. P. J. Patterson , Omar Davis and Peter Phillips now being crown by our neophyte finance minister, Mr. Audley Shaw, and his boss Mr. Bruce Golding have cause serious social, economic and moral damage to our country.

To arrest this decline the unity government must seek to

(a) control all foreign currency flowing into Jamaica

(b) Require all foreign banks to invest twenty percent of all profit into Jamaica

(c) Use agriculture to spear head this growth by putting a halt to all foreign imports of agricultural products

(d) Begin the process to renegotiate both public and private debt with the intention of delaying payment for ten years so as to use that fund to provide jobs and job training

(e) Government must provide low interest loan to the manufacturing sector to provide jobs and to compete on the international market.

Lastly, this unity government must think seriously of joining the bank of the south to have accessible funds and markets which will help with our national development.  The Jamaican people will not be drawn into this tribal rivalry perpetuated over the years as a cover to further the enrichment and re-colonization of our people.