Dear Editor,

As the JLP designs a media policy and rebuilds itself, I caution the party not to swallow whole all that the media has to say about its faults. Our present practitioners have largely been trained at Carimac by the former members of various socialist movements from the 70s.

It doesn't surprise me that they seem to harbour an automatic negative view of the JLP. Some owners, like many business people, can be expected to go where the tax and duty waivers are most likely.

The media here is not the party's friend. It must be seen as a tool only and the Jamaica Labour Party must learn how to use it efficiently. Golding and Holness did what no other PM before did in bending to the will of the media and civil society. What happened to them? Think for yourself, Mr Holness! There are many who want you to do things that will weaken and split your party and so remain the Opposition for a long time.

Claude Russell

Spanish Town, St Catherine

jackreb65@yahoo.com

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