So as the beautiful petals from the Otaheite Apple Tree blanket the bare rock as they fall to the ground like velvet carpet so should be the voice of our leadership; smoothing the hard reality of the Jamaican experience.
Leadership must not only be Aspirational, it must also be Inspirational. We have a 10-point plan, now is the time to say "yes we can" as we are no JLP or PNP we are "out of many one people." Who you voted for was only a moment in time that occurs every four-five years, the rest of the time you must be true to the interest of all your fellow men and women.
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet comes out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile co-conspirator to the rape of his country and people. And how many lives have perished because, from pride, or spite, or indifference, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray the desire of greed and self- interest, that at this critical point in our nation’s development, has but hung his head and held his tongue”.
We should be committed to a new form of leadership; "Transforming Jamaica Through Leadership" an agenda for real change. When we talked about Transforming Jamaica and Change, we are not talking about "Change You Can Live With", as in Constitutional Changes to "shuffle the deck"; when however you change the cards, at the core of real leadership and governance are fundamental values and principles which governs how those with POWER relate to and treat those who are less powerful and by using the position of power to embody those core values and principles into institutional and capacity building such that they become the core philosophy of the heads and people who are running our institutions upon which the powerless depend on for the protection of their fundamental rights, justice, freedom, social and economic equality.
