I definitely believe that Jamaican dancehall artistes are among the main contributors to the moral decay and crime riddling the society.

These dancehall artistes mostly enjoy creating and performing songs loaded with a lot of negative activities in our society, not even realising that their songs can cause a negative reaction on the thoughts of their fans, especially the weak-minded youths.

Why don't they create positive, happy and merry songs? Every day they feed their audiences with lyrics filled with crime, gun, degradation of women and men, foul language, poverty, and other degrading things.

- Nima Allen

nallen@cwjamaica.blackberry.net

Kingston 9.

Property tax folly

We should be careful that we do not transfer failed ideology from other countries into our blessed island. I refer to the idea of land tax to be assessed on the developed property.

There are several homeowners living in a country north of ours who literally have to borrow money to pay their tax, which is based on the developed property.

Yes, for one who does not own a property it sounds real good. However, we need to realise that most persons who own their homes got it very close to their retirement.

If there is need to increase the property tax as we have it, go ahead, but do not punish people for owning a home. If the system is not broken do not fix it.

- Albert Edwards

cc_rufus@yahoo.com

Key West, Florida

Religious bigotry

Devon Dick's assault on the Seventh-day Adventist church, its beliefs and members is nothing short of religious intolerance and a form of bigotry. I am amazed that in an age were society demands that we be sensitive to the sexual orientation, gender equality, children's rights, racial equality and the like, The Gleaner has provided space for him spout his mis/ill-conceived ideas as a form of assault on Seventh-day Adventists in Jamaica.

Reality check, Rev Dick: Your views on religion are not the only ones! I wonder how he would survive in a cosmopolitan religious space that has not only several competing denominations in Christianity, but non-Christian religious groups such as Muslims and Hindus?

- Very Annoyed

spanishinquistion@yahoo.com