THE EDITOR, Sir:
MAY I use this medium to direct some suggestions to the Prime Minister with regard to the unsavoury topic of extortion.
Dear Prime Minister,
For far too long, the scourge of extortion has been gnawing away at the social fabric of public and private infrastructural endeavours, unabated. These costs are carried on the books as cost-overruns as the accounting profession still refuses to acknowledge extortion as a legitimate expense.
May I suggest, Mr. Prime Minister, that you instruct the Commissioner of Police to establish an Extortion Unit that will be made up of undercover policemen to be placed strategically at work sites, and construction offices. In this way, the perpetrators would be apprehended on sight.
If that does not work or if that idea is too simplistic, then I'm suggesting that the many idle soldiers at Up-Park Camp be deployed in the national interest to the many construction sites to keep the jackals at bay and bring back some civility to the construction industry.
Mr. Prime Minister, as a Jamaican, I can speak on behalf of all law-abiding citizens, when I say we are sick and tired of hearing and reading about extortion when we think something tangible can be done to ameliorate the problem.
I am, etc.,
'A CONCERNED JAMAICAN'
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