MAYDAY AIR JAMAICA

Let us unite in the diaspora to take back our country from corruption and decadence...stand up for truth and integrity ..stand up for victimized workers, and the right of our traveling public and visitors to our island right to safe skies, where air safety is not dictated by politics and politicians but by the people with the knowledge of how to ensure safe skies. The sale of Air Jamaica to foreign interest is not in our national interest let us support JALPA and the Air Jamaica workers in their bid to acquire our national airline. Politicians have silenced air safety issues in Air Jamaica and placed us all at risk. Now we have the national asset being sold to Caribbean Airlines while the pilots are prepared to acquire and /or should be assisted with the workers in acquiring the airline. Together we can begin to stem this corruption, do justice to our workers and influence the sale of our only remaining national asset. Business-man Gordon Butch Stewart successfully operated and grew the airline, during his ownership. We now seem again to require both his capital and expertise. Mr Stewart who presided during the period where I was unjustly dismissed was therefore unjustly enriched during the same period. What is proposed is that my claim as outlined below against the Jamaican government is for US $26 million, Mr Stewart, then as an angel investor who previously benefitted from the airlines, would now match this sum and provide this as operating capital over the short term, take an equity position and provide management while additional financing is sought. The government of Jamaica should advise the IMF that they have settled with me and given the settlement to the pilots representing their purchase and for an additional $1.00 should transfer ownership while providing an initial line of credit for the first year operating cash requirements to assist the workers. This would benefit all the Jamaican people, provide a plan to stop the drain on the taxpayer, while providing the employment our country so desperately needs and more importantly recognize the role of the tourist sector and its participants. Mr Butch Stewart has to be involved in the resolution of both the sale of Air Jamaica and damages flowing from my unjust dismissal and victimization during which he was unjustly enriched. The Hon. Portia Simpson-Miller removed my matter via the attorney general from the Supreme Court in Sept 2006. This is the only politician with a demonstrated integrity from either party in the matter of Air Jamaica and its workers. Again I call upon the leader of the opposition for assistance, beyond just the pilots and to the workers of Jamaica, as once again the airline is under siege.

January 31st 2010

Hon. Portia Simpson-Miller

Leader of the Opposition

89 Old Hope Road,

Kingston 6, Jamaica

Dear Mrs. Simpson-Miller,

I once again write to you seeking your assistance in the matter of my unjust dismissal by Air Jamaica and as ruled by the IDT in 1991. Unfortunately I am still a victim of political and judicial evil in our country and myself and the workers of Air Jamaica need your assistance to break the current state of siege in which the industry and carrier finds itself.

As you may recall The Supreme Court of Jamaica and in concert with Air Jamaica and the government of Jamaica for 15 years ignored an application on their desk, where the Supreme Court itself had issued an order delaying the hearing until the IDT could produce the records of the case. Since the government was never forthcoming with the records and Air Jamaica being an entity of theirs, the parties have perpetrated, arguable the highest degree of wickedness and conspiracy to commit evil against an individual worker, in denied and delayed justice in our islands history.

It was not until your intervention when you became our seventh Prime Minister, that you referred the matter to the attorney general and had the matter removed from before the courts and referred back to Air Jamaica and myself for settlement as indicated to me by letter of Sept 15 2006 from your office, that the issue moved forward.

Enclosed please find a copy of an open letter to Mr. Butch Stewart, the previous owner/operator of Air Jamaica. In this letter I have made a proposal whereby the workers of Jamaica could acquire the Airline for a $1.00, retain the carrier and provide an actual income steam to the taxpayers to offset their losses over the years, while settling my issue with an equity award as opposed to cash as they have not contested my demand for $26 million USD, as a just settlement. As you know the airline showed an operating profit sometime last year and notwithstanding has always been profitable albeit mismanaged and for corruption and nepotism’s sake.

The worker of Air Jamaica and Jamaica needs your support in the disposal of our most important economic weapon and its potentially deleterious effects on our tourist industry and economy were the controlling interest to be other than Jamaican.

Please help us as corruption and complicity has silenced the others on both sides of the aisle.

In closing, I wish to publicly speak of your integrity where the matter is concerned. When neither political party nor its members could find the wherewithal to stand up against nepotism and corruption you did and have been doing so. You have single handedly stood for Justice and Equity for the people of Jamaica and for this I applaud you. In the day of the swallowing of camels, this also will be in the scales. Forswearance has a remedy of which I know you are aware.

I have never been a member of the JLP or PNP as neither organization has ever managed to deceive me concerning their real intent as history has demonstrated.

So that you have had nothing to gain by standing for the truth, except as truth herself will reward. Maybe one day I will have the privilege of meeting you and thanking you personally.

However let me say that if we had an iota of the caliber of integrity in our politicians as exemplified by you and single handedly in this matter, our country would not be in the state it is in today.

The tourist industry, the aviation industry and workers of Jamaica elite and nominal need your help, as all others have abandoned them and they are without resolve. Please help.

Respectfully

Wesley Sampson