Seaga not worthy of highway honour

THE EDITOR, Sir:

Edward Seaga and the Jamaica Labour Party have, throughout his life, been generally negative as demonstrated by his actions and words to anything where government played a large part in social services. He was not for the National Stadium and fought against the Norman Manley concept to give Jamaica a stadium.

In the 1980s, influenced by Reaganism and Thatherism, Seaga and his party destroyed the Police Academy at Twickenham Park, another national institution. Not satisfied, his government downscaled the G.C. Foster Sports College and impacted negatively the agricultural programme at Jose Marti.

Two decades later, Seaga openly criticised building highways in the nation. The current prime minister is always ignorant about history. Hence, he jumped at making his role model the beneficiary in the history of the North-South Highway. This is ridiculous and a travesty of social justice.

Edward Seaga is not deserving of having the highway named after him. Yet Seaga's major projects in Jamaica shut down after a brief operation such as Spring Plain, managed by the Israeli-American crime mobster who was imprisoned by the US authorities in the 1980s.
Name the highway after a non-political person and one who has been instrumental in the development of our island.

As usual, we have a prime minister who is politically naive and extremely partisan, so he has to pay homage to his mentor.

MAURICE CHRISTIE
Aboukir, 
St Ann