I am absolutely incensed and annoyed by this recent talk of buggery and gays, as if the buggery law only applied to gay men. It is clear to me that buggery, as defined by any old dictionary, applies to both men with men, men with women, and yes, even women with women! So why are these silly, stupid, stigmatising people referring to the buggery law as if it were meant as some condemnation of gay people?

Sir, any man, woman or child who has anal sex is clearly breaking the buggery law, be he or she hetero, homo or bisexual.

So, please, Jamaican people, remember that the buggery law doesn't only apply to the gay community, it also applies to you homophobes, too! The Oxford Dictionary defines buggery as "anal intercourse".

- sensiblejamaican@googlemail.com

I am tired of hearing, "they will be caught and brought to justice", but what is justice? Even if "they" are caught, no one will come forward. Our justice system relies too much on eyewitness evidence. How many persons are willing to sacrifice their lives and/or those of their families for "justice"? I once asked a friend of mine if she saw a crime took place, if she would talk. She said, "no, you must be mad!" I asked her, "If (and God forbid) your child was murdered and I witnessed it, would you want me to talk?" I am yet to get an answer.

- N. Brown, Jerash562@hotmail.com

The politics we practise in Jamaica is very similar to that of the British parliamentary system. One of the good things about the political parties in England is that when any party fails to secure an election victory, its leader resigns. The PNP needs to adopt this principle. Mrs Simpson Miller is a very respected and hard-working politician and as leader of the PNP failed to secure an election victory for her party.

As such, I strongly believe that she needs to step down as president of the PNP. As comrades, we are tired of the infighting in the PNP, and one thing I have learned over the years as a diehard PNP is that our great party, founded by respectable men such as Norman Manley and Howard Cooke, is bigger than any one of us as Comrades. So, as the party puts people first, let us as comrades put the PNP first.