Today Jamaicans go to the polls to chose a series of constituent electors representing the two major political parties ‚the people’s National Party(PNP) and the Jamaica Labor Party(JLP).
Later this evening one of the two political parties will be elected to govern the country for the next five (5) years.
At stake is the future of of 2.8 million people and a nation whose standard of living has deteriorated drastically over the last several decades. The party in power the PNP has held office for 32 of the last 44 years. There has been twelve years of JLP rule since 1972 and 2016, these two JLP Administrations were between 1980 and 1988 and 2007 and 2011.
It is fair to say that Jamaica has been shaped largely by the PNP economically , culturally , and infra-structurally.
Or not!
Depending on whether you believe that the decay Jamaica has experienced in a systematic way is attributable to the PNP’s gross mismanagement of our country.
Or not.
The Jamaican electorate will have another shot at rescuing their own lives and the future of their children from a cesspool of corruption, Don-culture, financial mismanagement and thievery, a disrespect for the Island’s national treasures and a host of other malfeasance, many of which would have landed the perpetrators in prison in a country of laws.
Today Jamaicans get to decide whether they want to continue to be shunned by other CARICOM nations.
Today Jamaicans get to decide whether they want the number one foreign exchange earner (tourism) to continue to be so, even though the average person hardly benefit from it
Today Jamaicans get to decide whether they want to continue to have remittance as the country’s number two foreign exchange earner. Meaning that our Nation is a dependent beggar nation.
Today Jamaicans get to decide whether it want to embark on a refreshing new path toward a market driven economy or it wants to remain on a path of failed ideological socialism long discarded by smarter nations.
Venezuela is reeling from the effects of ideological socialism even though it is an oil rich nation. Supermarket shelves are empty , medicines in short supply and no vaccine to prevent the metastasizing of killer diseases.
These are all problems which Jamaicans will, have to grapple with and then some.
Later today we will all know what the people decide .
One thing is certain whichever way they vote they will have to live with the consequences.