Proportional Representation is our right

THE EDITOR: The Prime Minister of this country has declared that he will not allow Proportional Representation in this place. He has no power to do so; it is not his will, but the will of the people. The people will decide. He is being arrogant. It is the constitutional right of citizens of the nation. You cannot deny the minority races  and groups representation in the Parliament. Is there a hint of dictatorship? The people will not tolerate this. For over 40 years the people of Laventille have been neglected but they just roll over and accept their fate. Take the gangsters of this place and make them guards, they have grown up in violence and regard it as a way of life. They will guard by day and spoil their keep by night. It is a common observation that gangsters lose all their virtues. They plow down with the gun anyone who comes in their way. Have we lost respect for the noble businessmen of the city by foisting upon them this kind of intolerable action?

Shall we place our respectable hardworking and honest businessmen under the case of people who may later turn out to be felons? But suppose we have no regard or respect for the people who inhabit the city by day, what about the foreigners and innocent people who walk the streets of the city. We are laying a trap for the lives of these people. We are laying a snare for our own lives. When those who rule the nation wake up to my observation, realise the outcome of their decision, the leader will shamelessly say it was just a thought, not knowing that the way one thinks reveals his personality.

KONRAD GONZALIS
La Romaine