It is rather disturbing to have read in The New York Daily News of December 12 'Air Jamaica to be sold by 2009'. Senator Don Wehby made the announcement recently. The most pressing need of my beloved country is not disposing of the airline. There ar areas that can be considered first, and certainly not a sellout in the first 90 days of a new administration.

The Cabinet should sit and examine the spate of murders and other heinous crimes destroying the country and inhibiting real growth. This new government has not given a clear signal as to their intentions relating to the reduction of crime and the measures to be put in place.

It seem as if they have been too long in the opposition and have not realised that they are the government.

Mr. Prime Minister, I beg that that your Cabinet should not be celebrating during this season but look carefully at measures to address the crime problem and make your announcements for the New Year.

- Don Matthews

The Royal Cayman Islands Police has just celebrated 100 years of policing in their three islands, and not a single police officer has ever died in the line of duty. The only time policemen are given weapons here in Grand Cayman is when they are going on a particular assignment.

Those instances when Jamaican officers are killed, whether in the line of duty or not, and whether or not they had their service weapon with them, are of interest.

Jamaica's crime is different and our police force is up against serious weaponry from the gunmen.

Unless the new commissioner gets on board and Derrick Smith does what needs to be done, then crime in all forms will lead to Jamaica's destruction.