Go for it, Madame Minister

THE EDITOR: This is an open letter to Minister Camille Robinson-Regis.

Mrs Minister, as a housewife who has not bought a chicken since the prices became not only prohibitive, but downright mercenary, I want to say this to you dear lady. Go for it ma’am, a number of us are with you one hundred percent. As a people, we don’t like to bother ourselves even with things very critical and dear to us. Hence the reason we even shy from writing letters to the papers to show approval and support for your intended actions, which we are so eager to see implemented.

Madame Minister, it is time something was done about these people and we hope you don’t wait any longer for we are indeed suffering. Due to the emptiness and the dishonesty of their promises, may we ask that you don’t make the new measures too temporary because, we are sure, when they get things their way, they will go back to their empty promises and we the housewives will go back to square one. We therefore pledge our support for your actions and urge you to implement them now. Enough is enough. And while you are at it, put something in place, for those of us who cannot afford to pay so much for plucking. I don’t mind buying a live chicken and plucking it myself without having to pay for plucking just to fill the pockets of these greedy people.

GWENDOLYNE CLIFTON and FRIENDS
Claxton Bay