Dear Editor,

Your editorial in the Sunday Observer of April 18 was excellent. It spoke for a great many silent Jamaicans who are deeply dismayed and discouraged over the implications of the Dudus and Manatt affair.

I wonder if the prime minister truly appreciates the extent to which his moral rectitude is being questioned by good, decent, patriotic Jamaicans of every political persuasion. This is now well beyond party affiliation. It touches deeply our inner sense of shame at the nation we have become and with our leadership which seems to be defending all the wrong causes. Most of us are by nature trusting citizens, who are predisposed to residing faith in the basic integrity and decency of our top leaders. Campaign promises we can take with a pinch of salt, but we hold as sacrosanct honesty, integrity and the courage to be truthful. With this issue, we are severely challenged to ask ourselves if there is an agenda that must, at all costs, be hidden from these virtues.

Now is the time for those of us who love Jamaica deeply to simply stand up, speak out, be counted and, yes, marked if so be. And as citizens speak directly to our prime minister, our leader, asking him to trust us with the truth, and take the battle (with our unflinching support) to the real enemy.

George Campbell

7 Barton’s Aerie

Stony Hill

Oeg20@hotmail.com