Commentary

The letter published in your Saturday, October 25, 2014 edition signed by 'Hope Pastures Citizens' Group' contains several inaccuracies, which the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) is obliged to correct.

Below are excerpts of an address by Garnett Roper, chairman of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company, to employees at a staff meeting on Sunday, November 2.

We are surprised that four months into its assignment, Aubyn Hill's task force has offered no progress report on the efforts to fashion an economic strategy for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), or that we can perceive no impact of its work on either the thinking or the policy pronouncements of the leadership of the Opposition.

So the prime minister, who is also the minister of defence, is perfectly satisfied with the performance of her minister of health. She has every confidence in Dr Fenton Ferguson. It doesn't seem to matter that the nation is in a perilous state: pop down, mash up, largely because of the incompetence of the minister of health and his technocrats in handling the chik-V crisis.

The cycles with which Jamaica grapples are now in the slot where men are in the cross hairs. The Jamaican male is often portrayed in a negative light - and deservedly so.

One of the axioms of public relations is to 'never draw attention to bad news by attempting to rebut it'.