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It is a plan that recognises that we must educate our people and nurture our
children because they are our future, we must make maximum use of the
resources of our international partners, we must provide competitive incentives
for investment and job creation, to increase personal and family incomes, we
must ensure transparency, accountability and effective oversight of government,
to stem corruption, we must secure our citizens and we must ensure electoral
integrity to preserve our democracy.
Mr Speaker, I end with the words of a song written by a past student of Knox
College who is now at the theological College in Mandeville, Jovane Blagrove:
Our children cry even louder than before
No opportunity will come knocking at their doors
For no one sees the potential deep inside
Why don't you hear our children's cry?
Violence is the only thing we see
With so much crime how can we be?
It may not sound strange but it’s time for a change
Why won't we come together and pray.
CHORUS
Pray for Jamaica
The land of wood and wata
So we might live together
For the betterment of another
That we might rise against
The oppression of our mind
Pray... For Jamaica.