Dear Editor,

I see that the temperature in Jamaica is fever-pitch with excitement and joy at the current misfortunes of the governing JLP. Almost every Jamaican wants Coke to be extradited and the JLP to leave office immediately – even without completing their constitutionally backed full four-year term. That is how desperate and undemocratic the PNP is.

However, be aware that even after Coke is gone, crime and coruption will still be rampant. Kern Spencer, now facing the court, will be set free. The police will still go into communities and kick in people’s doors and kill suspects. The Opposition leader, Portia Simpson Miller, has just said that Bruce Golding’s confession in Parliament recently was the darkest day in Jamaica’s political history.

Not for me. One of my darkest days was the day a certain minister spoke about George Phang and Willie Haggart. But I would like to submit that the darkest day in Jamaica’s history was the day the then Opposition spokesman on crime, Derrick Smith, along with the police hierarchy, had to plead to another for the handing over of Milton “Tony” Welsh after a young man was killed in Golden Spring.

One big question remains, now that Jamaica has suddenly got righteous and wants to see the back of criminality since Coke is going to be out of the picture. Will anybody ask the police to arrest others involved in criminal activities that they have been alleged to be involved in over the years? Or maybe since that is in the past and not in the JLP, we should just forget it?

D E Johnston

Kingston