Showing affection
I think the only way we can stop the carnage in our country is for us to start showing lots more affection to others. Fathers have to start treating their sons as humans and not as things. We need to tell our children that we love them. We are afraid to tell our sons that we love them because we think it is too feminine but it is a wide gap between I love you and I am in love with you. So, to all parents, start being affectionate to your children, tuck them in at nights, tell them you love them in the morning when they leave for school. That's the only way we are going to save Jamaica. I am asking the prime minister to make this his everyday plea to the nation and to all the media centres, artistes and stage performers.
- Kenneth Llewellyn, kennethllewellyn@hotmail.com, Via Go-Jamaica
Seeking best friend
I am seeking assistance in finding my very first best friend, whose name is Dalton Martin aka Sherman. His last known address was somewhere in the state of Texas in the USA. He is a regular visitor to my island home (Jamaica) and supposedly does business somewhere in Montego Bay. I can be reached at 803 665 5458.
- Erica Levell, ericalevell@yahoo.com, 332 Denby Circle, Columbia, SC, USA.
Only drips of water!
For years now, we the residents of Eight Miles in Bull Bay, St Andrew, have been suffering as a result of extremely low water pressure. We have made several phone calls and visits to the National Water Commission (NWC) without success. We now have water merely dripping from our pipes. If "water is life" then we are living miserably in our neck of the woods. We do hope that the relevant authorities will make an effort to address our situation before the residents take to the roads. We also hope that our member of parliament will do his job and assist with the problem. How can we live on the same road where the pump station is located and be suffering like this? And the NWC has the nerve to be asking for a rate increase! Water is life, so we need adequate supply now!
- Dehydrated customer, kwamezsister@yahoo.com, Via Go-Jamaica
Airport bag-handlers
As a returning visitor to Jamaica about three weeks ago, my wife and I were somewhat disturbed by what we experienced at the Norman Manley Airport in Kingston. It is acceptable to pay the bag handlers after one leaves the checkout area. However, it is unacceptable to have, what appears to be, uniformed bag handlers taking off our bags from bag conveyors and then having to pay them, when one thought it was just a courtesy displayed by the airport authorities. We had to pay two sets of bag handlers. Not a good impression on arrival in Jamaica. I can live with paying the second set of handlers after checkout but not the first set.
- Gene Archer, ggarcher@yahoo.com, Via Go-Jamaica
