Retiree targets
I am a Jamaican living in Toronto for quite a number of years, and I echo the calls of Eddie Seaga "hang them high". The Jamaica that I knew as a child in the '60s and early '70s is but a distant memory. May Pen, Clarendon, the place I love like no other, is now one of the worst places on the island for murders.
There are so many Jamaicans who have been living and working abroad, and now when they are retired, would love to come back home to live out their remaining years, but are afraid to do so, because we know that once back in Jamaica we become targets. Hang them, hang them, hang them high, and tell Amnesty International to leave Jamaica alone; they do not know our criminals, we do.
- Joseph Clark, nubian 47@hotmail.com
Sugar-coating
How is it that Mr Shaw feels justified and comfortable telling people that the economy is not in a state of crisis when the rest of the world runs around like chickens with their heads cut of? Far be it from me to tell the man how to do his job, I'm merely a 23-year-old feeling the pinch of the economic troubles, but I think the Jamaican people deserve to hear the truth. I do not believe things need to be sugar-coated.
The Jamaican economy is largely dependent on borrowed money and is affected in every respect by any economic turmoil in the United States, as the saying goes 'If America sneezes Jamaica catches a cold'. It's high time the Government stop trying to calm fears and start laying out its plans to prepare for or alleviate some of the financial woes we are currently facing and will soon face.
- Jjenelle Patterson, jjenellepatterson@gmail.com, Via Go-Jamaica
Evil spirit
I believe strongly that to kill the person in whom the evil spirit (the perpetrator which has committed death and violence) is not equivalent to getting rid of this wicked evil spirit. I believe, therefore, that we must get rid of the evil spirit, because if we don't, then this same spirit will simply enter into another person and commit even more wickedness.
Please check the history of the behaviour of this despicable, loathsome spirit. It even killed - or thought it killed - Jesus, but Jesus triumphed. So let us be godlike and preserve the gift of life, and destroy the Devil.
- Ralston Davis, ralston@nova.edu, P.O. Box 8886, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Via Go-Jamaica
Such barbarism
As a Jamaican living overseas, I am appalled and numbed at these new and demonic barbaric acts of violence towards our women and children. Never in my life can I remember a time where such barbarism and inexplicable thirst for blood has held my beloved land hostage. I am ashamed, ashamed.
-oyoung_1yahoo.com
