I have realised that there is a lot of entertainment for persons within the secular world in your newspaper columns. While there are a lot of interviews featuring young and upcoming artistes, there are only but few of them who are Christian entertainers. As a Christian young person, I know that I speak for a lot of persons in Christendom when I say that we need to see more interviews being done with our Christian role models. I know that it is very important to keep your readers but I honestly don't think you will lose any if you interview a gospel artiste once per week. In fact, you will gain those in the Christian world.

- Sharija Smith

Hanging the answer

On one of the television stations quite recently, the then director of public prosecutions (DPP), who was addressing, presumably, a group of human rights enthusiasts, hit the nail on the head regarding the matter of hanging. In essence, he was implying that if a murderer is sentenced to life imprisonment or given long years of incarceration, which is the case now in our judiciary system, and it fails in its message to deter prospective murderers, try hanging to see the result for comparison.

I agree with that view because the murder rate is now out of control. All the strategies applied seem fruitless. What is alarming and frightening is the crime and violence that has infiltrated the schools, with students murdering students, and pupils, along with parents, attacking teachers.

The daily murdering of people is barbaric and unjust, and these perpetrators should be hanged. The nation is crying out desperately, so if Mr 'P' and Ms 'S' failed in executing it, we are asking Mr 'G' to do it.

- E.N. Perkins P.O. Box 415, Mandeville

Projects delayed

Five million dollars was awarded by Hon Dean Peart in December 2006 to resurface Faith Home Road in the Golden Spring community. This allocation was never spent there. Ten million was also identified as to be needed from the Equalisation Fund at the Kingston & St Andrew Corporation. Why has nothing been done to this road? The citizens, in collaboration with Government, are in dialogue and cooperation to build a health centre in Golden Spring. An architectural design for the facility was done for which the Ministry of Health has not honoured its side of the obligation to pay. This is gross and must be corrected. Until then, the Chase Fund, which may provide funding, has to wait and sick patients are hurting.

- Derrick Simon, president, Golden Spring Citizens Association