Missing boys story
Thanks for publishing the letter regarding the five Jamaica College boys who went missing in the Blue Mountains in 1939. I have been overwhelmed with emails and telephone calls from relatives and friends living here and overseas in response to this letter.
We have since been emailing each other and speaking on the telephone, and I have received a great deal of information about the adventure.
And it was an adventure. Between 200 and 300 persons - soldiers, policemen, scouts, businessmen and concerned citizens from as far as Montego Bay - hiked the mountains in search of them.
Communications? No cellular phones; so carrier pigeons to fly messages to the search parties were used. No helicopters. For more, readers will have to wait until the book is published.
- Hartley Neita
Witness protection
Let us ask ourselves this question: Where do these youth get their guns, as we know it's not just one gun but guns, so there are many illegal guns in Jamaica. The authorities have not given the users of guns the opportunity to hand them in.
Nevertheless, the criminaljustice system should take Dr Gayle's report seriously and make the wider public know of the measures that are taken to protect witnesses. To tackle crime in the appropriate manner, some mechanisms must be put in place because upper-class criminal have what it takes to bribe officials.
Poor people must know that it is safe for them to report a crime and to attend court and give evidence.
- Vinice Cleary,
clear58@btinternet.com
London, Via Go-Jamaica
Woman's right
A woman's body is hers to do whatever she wants to. I find it hypocritical for so-called Christians or the Government to dictate to a woman who might have got pregnant because her abusive partner refused to use protection or let her use birth control.
I was born and raised in the ghetto and know it happens. Where is the Church or the Government when a woman is left to fend for herself and her kids in abject poverty and unemployment. Case in point, look at our country right now. A lot of those criminals should not have seen the light of day.
- Jennifer Williams jdaughma@comcast.netWaterbury, CT
Via Go-Jamaica
