Norman Horne and Franklyn Witter

The other night I watched a mini debate between Norman Horne and Franklyn Witter who are representing the PNP and the JLP respectively. Mr. Witter barely said anything of worth and Mr. Horne, who was busy tooting his own horn, said too much of worthlessness. What surprised me is that the results showed that viewers were more impressed with Mr. Witter’s argument(s), which were more or less non-existent. Now it could be a case where a load of “Labourites” sat by their phones and voted for Mr. Witter. But if the truth be told, Mr. Witters infrequent interjections were worth more than Mr. Horne’s view. The same promises were made: water, light, perfect life etc.

One thing that made me listen intently to Mr. Horne though, was this dream vision of a university which is run by overseas investors for OVERSEAS students who will bring in an average of US$22,000.00 for tuition and room and board. Now imagine that. I don’t know which dream world Mr. Horne is living in. One thing for sure is this, if we had a string of foreign universities based here, our people could not afford to attend them. Now why should we just host a school on our lands and have our people stand at the gates looking through the bars? Why not have a vision where you mark lands to develop local community colleges and/or unversity for locals? Is it that we are not good enough to learn too? Or is it the JLP mould of creating a nation of blue collar workers that Mr. Horne has carried over to the PNP?

Mr. Witter, you deserved to win that little mini-debate!!

http://jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20070721t200000-0500_125492_obs_norman_horne_s_university_vision_.asp