The Editor, Sir:

I read with interest the article 'They won't sell us bullets' in your September 9 edition.

I regret to say, but the human-rights lobby group Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) is not a part of the problem why the Jamaica Constabulary Force cannot find companies overseas from which to buy bullets.

How can anyone explain that to date some 1,200 people have died in Jamaica, which is such a small island.

Overriding problem

The overriding problem why the murder rate is so high and continues to increase year after year is because the two major political parties lack the will to unite and work as one entity to reduce the murder rate.

Instead, the two parties continue to support garrison politics to the detriment of Jamaica. Former US president Jimmy Carter visited the island to monitor one of our general elections, and wrote in a report that the main problem of murder in Jamaica was due to garrison politics, and suggested that if both parties continue to unite around garrison politics, then the murder rate would only get worse.

It has been about eight years since that report was written, and today, the murder rate has only got worse. That is the problem.

I am, etc.,

CARGILL KELLY

c465@erols.com

Manassas

Virginia