Letters

The limit knowledge

THE EDITOR, Madam:

It was brought to my attention that the Kingston & St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) is licensing vendors who walk and sell in the downtown Kingston market district and bus terminus at fees ranging from $1,500 to $2,500 yearly.

From my view, this is the biggest transfer of wealth from the peasants to the echelons. What is more frightening is the fact that these vendors will still have to pay market fees daily.

In our sister island Trinidad, the registration fee for vendors is said to be TT$70.00 and their vendors pay market fees weekly.

My questions for our political directorate, whether at central or local government levels are:

(1) is Jamaica a fascist state or is fascism yet to come?

(2) Are you insinuating feudalism?

(3) Don't you know of the thousands of people living on one $US1.00 a day in Jamaica?

(4) Are you making it a crime to be black?

(5) Do the Jamaican people need to know which side their bread is buttered on or if it is spread with arsenic?

Here are two sayings from the sages "A blind person's world is bounded by his or her touch"; "an ignorant person's world is bounded by the limit of his or her knowledge".

I am, etc.,

ALLAN MARTIN

Namibia