Heading towards failed state?

However, we need to take advantage of these God-given things. Let us revive the cocoa and coffee plantations for export, grow our own rice, sugar etc.

We must create new jobs by diversifying the economy.

It seems our leaders are more concerned with picking on each other, whichever side of the Parliament they sit, than getting the economy moving again.

All the wrong things are happening in the country. Two government appointments were revoked within a few days. A person not invited to the swearing- in of a minister crashes the party and is photographed with our President.

The crime and murder rates are escalating, equal to New York, according to the CNN documentary Places Unknown. And we are unable to appoint a police commissioner.

Who will take us seriously enough to want to invest here? Do we need to get someone with experience to lend a hand, to show us how to govern the country? We continue to be embarrassed daily as countries far and wide look on. Are we heading towards becoming a failed state?

PATRICIA BLADES via email