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Trust and accountability are of the past, and the general feeling now is that if you want to corrupt our assumed most honest person, you only have to put him/her in charge of taxpayers’ money. Our leaders have become engrossed in pursuing plans and programmes that are designed to benefit themselves rather than the people they serve. Our national anthem is most unpopular and seldom sung in places and occasions in keeping with the customs in the past, and whenever it is sung there are more mumblers than singers. Our national flag is constantly being disrespected and is oftentimes used by celebrity icons or in skimpy apparel on dancehall divas. Lives are no longer sacred, but taken for granted and can be snuffed out anytime, anywhere, and without reason, cause or purpose. In this period of our independent Jamaica, a different picture unfolds. Our leaders led and ruled with dignity and purpose and with a desire to please and not be pleased.
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People were seen as God’s creation and not as objects of a biological function, and lives were held sacred and respectful. The old was respected by the young and the young were, in turn, cared for by the elderly. In this period of colonial administration, our people had visions of a better life and hope for the future. The national flag, The Union Jack, was respected, and the national anthem, God Save the Queen, revered. Under English rule, the laws of the country were upheld and obeyed, and punishment for non-compliance was meted out with equality and justice regardless of colour, race, creed, or religious or political persuasion. Those were the ingredients that characterised us Jamaicans as a nation that stood head over shoulders of our sister Caribbean countries and often made us the object of admiration and sometimes envy. Our people possessed honesty, integrity, love and, most of all, godliness. How can we sing King Alpha’s song in a strange land?”īefore Jamaica gained Independence, and while we were yet the progeny of Great Britain, this beautiful island, the pearl of the Caribbean, was ruled by the so-called ‘white man’.
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