I read the article written by the St Catherine High School students with a renewed respect for the youth of Jamaica. Their recommendation to keep Air Jamaica solvent by selling stocks to the public and Government is simple in concept, but a giant in the size of their wisdom and heart.

I would like to add to their idea the buy-in of other private services; for example, ground transportation such as the bus and taxi system.

Terry Nwachie. harmonyhoz@yahoo.com, executive director, Harmony House Strategic Planning, Harmony House

The Jamaican political directorate will never be able to solve the crime problem the way it is going about it.

The intelligence of the Jamaica Constabulary Force is so weak and is of little or no help to the operations department.

With senior members reportedly having links to the underworld, is it really amazing that criminals cannot be brought to justice?

The crime analysis is often wrong because the criminologists who mine the data are always biased.

The Government is not willing to put money where it is needed, while too many of the elite and influential are the beneficiaries of crime.

The laws need to move with time, not in the interest of the people who have things to protect.

The police must stop telling the public who is doing what before a case is laid against a person.

In 2001, then Commissioner Francis Forbes took a new approach to the crime problem. It was never fully operationalised because of certain shortcomings the JCF still faces today. Then an anti-crime plan was drafted, but only few aspects were implemented with the help of the present commissioner.

Why can't he implement the rest now?

- Ian Haughton, ianhaughton@cwjamaica.com, Kingston 5

I note that much is being said these days about approvals for building developments. My concern is that the process continues to impede investors and developers.

The Government, through its various agencies, namely the parish councils, the National Environment and Planning Agency, the National Works Agency and the National Fire Brigade, has varying weaknesses and challenges.

Private sector professionals, such as architects, engineers, surveyors and lawyers, need to have seminars to create a new vision for proper town-planning procedures.

Professional bodies have been too silent on matters that are obviously flawed. I note that there are various plans to restore many so-called historical buildings that really need to be demolished. There are many derelict buildings in Kingston and Spanish Town that should also be demolished immediately because they are derelict and hazardous. Our so-called professionals need to be more vocal in regard to Jamaica's present and future development.

P.A.Soares, paulswarez@yahoo.com, Spanish Town