Seaga should graciously reject highway honour

THE EDITOR, Sir:
The Holness Government and former prime minister Edward Seaga might use the Easter moment as a time for reflection.
During the last Jamaica Labour Party administration, the proposal was made for the southern leg of Highway 2000 to be named in honour of Usain Bolt. Was it their thinking, then, that it was wrong for highways to be named after prime ministers?
In any event, Bolt, being true to himself, surrendered the privilege in favour of the deserving former prime minister P.J. Patterson.
Under another JLP administration, there is evidence of a forked-tongued element, in that their decisive thinking now is that highways can be named for former prime ministers.
Regardless, will Mr Seaga, for whom it is now proposed to name the North-South Highway, not choose to follow the unselfish true-to-thine-own-self Mr Bolt and surrender the privilege in favour of a deserving colleague, former
prime minister Portia Simpson Miller?
What a memorable and true Easter 2018 gift that would be for Jamaica's political integrity.
Or, is the Seaga-naming proposal to remain and lay the solid platform for controversy throughout the ages
PATRICK PETERKIN
Attorney at-law