We can ensure the survival of our people if we reach out to our Caribbean brothers and sisters and cement a united front

The Editor, Sir:

THe Reverend Fr Richard Ho Lung's article 'To Jamaica, I say YES' evokes a deep sense of patriotism. We are being shut out of countries all over the world. Maybe the land of our birth is beckoning us to stay here and build this country.

We have gone all over the world and taught our brothers and sisters that the Jamaican people are a people of spirit, a people who can fly like eagles. A people who stand tall in rough or smooth seas. We toil, we labour and we achieve.

We cannot spend our years worrying about murders and crime. We have to understand that when it's time to go, we have to go. It is all in the scheme of living and dying. There is always a price for progress.

There were years of mayhem in the United States of America with the gun-toting cowboys in Texas, later, the crime bosses in Chicago and New York, and then the gangs in California. These familiar stories could go on and on.

These frightening crime-based sagas eventually became the stuff of legends and movies.

Incentives

What we should be doing is offering many incentives to returning Jamaicans who wish to establish businesses here.

Based on my view of the land at this time, the Spanish and the English are returning to reclaim their once-lost piece of paradise.

The million-dollar question: Is globalisation the planned way back in? Our doors are open wide and, on the other side of the revolving door of the grand new world order, we are being shut out. Something about this is highly questionable.

My cry to my people is that we can ensure the survival of our people if we reach out to our Caribbean brothers and sisters and cement a united front.

I am, etc.,

Verna Gordon Binns

theashton@cwjamaica.com

St Elizabeth