Dear Editor,
Even though I maintain that experience is the best teacher, I have to also agree that respect for knowledge has to be earned through competence, not inherited through seniority. I am going to be short because I was not literally involved in the conversation, but sometimes a second or third opinion can be convincing to parties. If one earned a degree and never worked in that field, whereas another person who did not earn that degree but actually works/worked in that field, in my view the person who did the actual work is more experienced.
I also have to be fair and admit that if somebody makes the observation that I (Russell) think that it is okay for people without a diploma for a certain trade, to be employed before a person with a diploma for that trade, that would be a reasonable observation. Having stated that and reacting to observations which I agree with, I have to repeat a question that lately has been posed to me by several young people.
Mister Russell all you seeing us on motorbikes and talking about us riding carelessly all over the place. How come you don’t write about those Chinese who doing the same thing riding all over up and down in one-way roads delivering food and groceries, and the police is not doing anything to they?
I have to agree that the law is laid down for all (exceptions noted), but not only the police is to blame. I also blame all the people in government because all of them are seeing the same thing that those young men talked to me about, but they only washing their mouth on the local young people.
My other observation is that I cannot remember ever seeing those nationals mentioned working on and in the road like so many other people from the neighboring islands. I was told that they are made to work harder than we think. But with me “seeing is believing”. And even if this is the case, are we saying that government is knowingly permitting this?
Not so easy to sweep things under the rug anymore, too many phones in the place. Bobo work on this!
Russell A. Simmons
