Dear Editor,

The visit of US President Obama to Jamaica puts the Jamaican democracy on trial, because the president is advocating for world democracy in the Afro-Asia bloc and in the Third World. Yet, neither the government nor the opposition is prepared to give the Rastafarian movement representation in the Parliament as a minority within the political democracy of Jamaica.

Question: Is President Obama aware that 15 per cent of the Jamaican populace is Rastafarian and that the Rastafarian community is older than the two political parties? Yet there is no voice or an independent senator for Rastafarians.

Will the Rastafarian communities receive any help from the money which was granted to Jamaica by the president? The Rastafarian communities need help in the areas of basic schools, clinics, and social welfare assistance in the rural areas. Without a voice of representation in the Jamaican Parliament for Rastafarians, their communities will not benefit from the Government in the near future. It is important that the Rastafarian communities in Jamaica and worldwide agitate for a Rastafarian representative in the political system of Jamaica to address these concerns.

Give thanks.

Ascento Foxe

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