A blue room for Gordon House?
Published:Tuesday | September 28, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The Editor, Sir:
The University Hospital of the West Indies has opened a grief room to allow persons "who receive poor prognoses or news of death to receive needed counselling and grieve in dignity". This is a great idea and I believe one that should be replicated all over this country. In fact, every home should have a 'blue room' as they have dubbed it.
I believe that attached to Gordon House, our seat of parliament, there should be built immediately, a blue room to accommodate parliament-arians who want to grieve over the frequent cursing and general misbehaviour.
The nation needs a blue room because:
1) We don't know who paid for Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, to prevent 'Dudus' from being extradited;
2) We still don't know and cannot accept their word that the People's National Party returned the Trafigura money;
3) Kern Spencer, Sharon Haye-Webster, Joseph Hibbert, Ian Hayles and until recently, Shahine Robinson, are all comfortably in Parliament making laws and drawing a salary;
4) Wesley Hughes is embarrassed as he is unable to explain how we are going to repay the Chinese loan for the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme, which is badly needed but can be used for pork-barrel politics;
5) James Moss-Solomon has resigned in frustration from all government boards, and Aubyn Hill has told us that government-operated businesses, like Air Jamaica and the Sugar Company of Jamaica, which cost this country billions of dollars, did so because of a lack of accountability, and that the Government should get out of all such entities.
I could go on and on but, personally, I am grieving for Buju Banton. We as Jamaicans can believe Buju when in his defence he says that he was only talking 'crap' because we have been fed a steady diet of this for years by our DJs.
What I find hard to swallow is that fire-breathing, chant-down-Babylon-system Buju, could sit on a plane filled with beautiful stewardess and converse with a total stranger while drinking red wine, which apparently went to his head, and engage in such fantasy. It makes me want to scream.
I am, etc.,
MARK CLARKE
Siloah PO, St Elizabeth