Dear Editor,

The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) has decided to rise from its hibernation to comment on an issue in the national space.

It is its right to comment on any issue, but when it chooses to cherry-pick the issues and to come out with unreasonable demands it begs for the organisation to be ignored.

The latest release from the PSOJ came due to the unseemly and despicable comment by Isat Buchanan towards Director Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, comments that have drawn the ire of most Jamaicans and forced him to resign from his position of chair of the PNP’s Human Rights Commission as well as offer an apology.

I have no issue with any condemnation of Buchanan; however, for the PSOJ to suggest that the apology tendered by him is not enough, and Mark Golding should also apologise to women, leads me to think the organisation is on a frolic of ridiculousness.

Buchanan, in speaking on a YouTube channel, was not representing the People’s National Party (PNP), so how are his views the responsibility of Mark Golding and the PNP?

Strangely enough, the PSOJ has been silent on the reported beating of women and the many obscene outbursts by serial offenders in the House and on official duty.

Has the PSOJ asked Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Andrew Holness to apologise for them?

A most important issue is accountability in governance, and it should concern every Jamaican that our elected representatives meet every requirement according to law.

If the PSOJ wants to be taken seriously and not be seen as an extension of a political alliance it should stop being selective in its outrage. It should demand reasonable and sensible action. Otherwise, it will continue to be ignored as a tool for certain political interests.

D Smith

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