Dear Editor,

Have we any pride in our national symbols, in particular our national flag, which continues to be misrepresented physically?

Or is this just another example of our “chaka chaka” behaviour in so many respects, where any and everything goes – however reprehensible or wrong it may be?

I continue to see our flag or replicas thereof being used even in official circles, such as on certain public buildings and on government websites and documents, where the diagonal cross is being represented by the colour yellow rather than gold, as is officially sanctioned.

If there has been an official change to the national standard, it behoves the authorities to so advise. However, the website of the Jamaica Information Service, which depicts the flag with the colour yellow in many instances, continues to describe our flag as black, green, and gold, as I have always and only known it to be.

The continued practice of misrepresenting the flag, especially at the highest levels of our land, is most distasteful, if not downright dishonourable.

I submit that the government should take immediate responsibility to ensure that only the appropriately depicted flag (black, green, and gold) is used in any public manner in Jamaica at the very minimum.

Moreover, strong efforts must be taken to prohibit the importation, local production, and sale of the inappropriately depicted flag so as to discourage its continued proliferation.

It should not be too difficult to show a little more respect for the things that represent our country.

Kevin KO Sangster

sangstek@msn.com