Your assertion requires a profound detachment from documented history and present-day reality. To claim the JLP has been a force for good is either a deliberate attempt to gaslight the Jamaican people or a display of woeful ignorance.

The evidence to the contrary is overwhelming. The party’s legacy is stained by a consistent pattern of violence and oppression against the marginalized Black majority, rather than the privileged 2%. This tradition spans from Alexander Bustamante’s threat to “bring in all Rastas, dead or alive,” to Hugh Shearer’s infamous “shoot first and ask questions later” directive—a motto chillingly revived and practiced by the current Prime Minister and his Security Minister.

This history is compounded by even more egregious acts, including alleged collaborations with foreign entities that resulted in the deaths of innocent women and children, through both direct violence and engineered shortages of essential goods.

The result of this decades-long governance is a nation in stagnation. While you speak of deterioration, the living standards for most Jamaicans have been frozen in time. World Bank data confirms Jamaica remains the second-poorest country in the Caribbean, trailing only Haiti—a nation ravaged by civil war and external sabotage. This comparison is not just damning; it’s an indictment of our own internal failures.

This failure is further proven by one of the hemisphere’s most significant brain drains. Our best and brightest are not just leaving for first-world powers; they are fleeing to smaller, less-resourced Caribbean nations in search of the basic wages and opportunities your government has failed to provide at home. This is a national embarrassment.

My critique is not blind party allegiance. It is a demand for basic competence. Mediocrity and failure must never be tolerated or excused out of tribal loyalty to any political party. The Jamaican people deserve far better than the legacy you are defendin