Take it easy, Usain

I just want to thank Usain for a wonderful year for all of us, but more so to say welcome aboard to the BMW world. The rich and famous all drove Minis but now it is the famous and the rich who drive the Bimmer. Think about it, Bob Marley, Orville Edwards, Yellowman ... the list goes on. My only suggestion now for Usain is that he attends racing school such as Bondurant or Richard Petty in the USA so as to be properly prepared to meet the challenges of a young sensation and where also the emphasis is not on speed but SAFETY.

- Norman Norman Smith nrmn_smth@yahoo.com, Phoenix Arizona, Via Go-Jamaica

Dam proposal

What of the Hawker's Hall dam proposal on which a lot of survey work was done years ago? Why plan to destroy the gorge?

- Hughart Brown hughart@bellsouth.net, Via Go-Jamaica

Roots of injustice

'We want justice' is a prevalent cry around the world, particularly in Jamaica. With all the cries of injustice bombarding the media, one needs to ask where these seeds of injustice spring from, undoubtedly the seeds are sprung from the home.

A home is an establishment in which families work together in creating a functional environment, but how many families in Jamaica are doing that?

Parents and guardians consciously and subconciously sometimes offer unjust solutions in the home, favouring one child over another. Thus, children learn the way of unfavourable judgement and practise it.

Injustice in the home can foster societal injustice, therefore if a child is not taught the real principles of justice, then he or she will fail to administrate good, sound judgement and thus cause negative impacts on society.

Parents need to be aware and correct this.

- Jessica Facey jessicafacey@yahoo.com, Via Go-Jamaica

Moral cowardice

It is moral cowardice on the part of The Gleaner to call for the Jamaican Government and CARICOM to take action against the regime of Robert Mugabe without mentioning the role of Britain in the theft of land in Rhodesia from 1889 until the 1950s and the failure to honour the Lancaster House agreement of 1979 in support of British funding for a legal transfer of land. I do not support Mugabe's recent acts, but to omit the political role of Britain in this process is to misrepresent the political situation in Zimbabwe. Neither the Jamaican Government nor CARICOM must follow The Gleaner's immoral advice.

- Rupert Lewis, Department of Government, UWI