The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

A MOTHER with a bare foot, nappy headed child with a dirty nose would be embarrassed if one states the obvious and would want to fight if comments are made with Trump’s characteristic bluntness. But her stirred emotions do not make the comments less true.

As CARICOM leaders decry President Donald Trump for his purportedly “racist” comments regarding some third world countries, their rank hypocrisy is obvious. Inwardly, many of them must agree with his statements and many if not most of them who are career politicians, are responsible for the deplorable state of their respective countries.

Are these not politicians who borrow large sums of money that cannot be repaid, that is then embezzled or wasted leaving their countries with massive infrastructural problems and stagnating debt?

Aren’t many of their citizens emigrating in search of a better life in other countries because the citizenry, that agrees with Trump’s assertions, know what the politicians would openly deny? Rather than comment, the leaders of CARICOM should hang their heads in shame and resolve to do better for their citizens.

The leadership in this country has us well down the path of being referred to in the same way as Trump referred to some third world countries, in fact in many circles we are viewed that way already. It is ironic that the leader of the Opposition, whose party propelled us down that road the fastest, would have the temerity to comment at all!

Many third world countries are dumps, their leaders have made them so. I am not yet convinced that those now in charge can change course.

JB

Nassau,

January 16, 2018.