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Dear Editor,This is an open letter to the members of Generation 2000 (G2K).
Delano Seiveright
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Dear members,
Following my election to a third consecutive term as president of G2K in November last year, I confided with several members and well-wishers of G2K my plan to vacate office this year.
I decided to vacate office
due to developments in my personal life, the fact that no G2K president has ever gone beyond three terms, and my own belief that no one should.
A transition team, chaired
by Vice-President Matthew Samuda, was established and has done a good job so far in putting us on a path for a smooth transition.
I want to thank you for the outpouring of support over the years and the hard work done in making G2K not only a vibrant household name but the most effective, robust and strident affiliate of the JLP.
Our achievements during my time in office include having
a highly qualified, diverse and the largest membership base
in the organisation's history; increased activism and stridency on issues; high-level communications; social media and advertising infrastructure; the development of multiple and active chapters in Jamaica, the Caribbean, North America and Great Britain; social outreach activities; human resource support for the JLP; among a litany of other successes.
I left some words of advice with each of my likely successors and would like to share some of it with you. As we go forward we must not allow anyone and/or interest group to silence or trounce our stridency on issues of national importance. For no fault of
our generation, and as has been revalidated over the past five months, the very composition of vocal segments of Jamaica's establishment — media, civil society and other critical societal groupings — are politically lopsided, intellectually dishonest and excessively hypocritical.
As a matter of fact, many now have their snouts in the trough as additions to the Government's payroll, a simple result of the good and, in some ways, corrupted organisation and planning by the PNP over the last several decades.
Their impact on public opinion cannot be overlooked and must be faced up to. It should come as no surprise then, that the JLP has only managed to win two general elections over the last 40 years.
In order to safeguard our democracy, we must organise, organise, organise, maintain and build up support across the country, remain intelligently strident and be very devoted in our vitally important mission.
To achieve this, I urge you to discard that part of you that is given to cowardice and wanting to please and impress everyone around you, including your enemies. We simply cannot go into the
next election expecting to
wear white gloves, have
tea, then powder-puff our way into office.
Jamaica has suffered immensely from poor leadership and is in for rough times ahead, no matter the hunky-dory feeling that some are keen to deceptively project. As future leaders we will have to buckle down, further develop ourselves with the acumen, resolve and fortitude required for effective 21st century leadership and see to it that our generation leads a truly good government that takes charge and leads our country to true success.
I am optimistic about the future and am assured that G2K will continue to grow from strength to strength. After all, as our motto says, we are "more than just politics".
I officially demit office as of June 1, 2012. It was an honour.
Delano Seiveright
President
G2K
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