If you were living in or close to areas that were heavily impacted by Hurricane Melissa in late last year, your judgment of the quality of recovery would be much different to someone else who lived in say Kingston. In the end, our judgment pales in comparison to the reality which stares us in the face.

The fact is no governmental administration in this country has ever in our history, carved out for itself a workable public body that truly understands the alacrity expected at most times if it wants the people to see it as a government that can actually drive a nail into a board and twist a bolt into metal and to do so in quick time. That is the shame we must live with.

Even with that I would be surprised if a majority viewpoint finds that the government has done a good job in the post-Melissa recovery efforts. To me, even as a social expectation, the negatives would pile up higher than the positives.