In response to Andrew Ricketts' question in yesterday's Gleaner, I will answer with three other questions. Which rock were you living and studying under? What is so low-cost and relatively safe about Lime Cay? What do you characterise as "the entire" Corporate Area?

First, being a graduate student is no excuse for being an ostrich with its head buried in the sand. One would think this would be the time that you would pay close attention to what is going on around you, keeping abreast of current affairs. By the way, what are the similarities with Lime Cay and corporal punishment?

Whether it is more dangerous than Hellshire is beside the point. Why wait for it to reach to that stage? Why not address the problem before it becomes an environmental nightmare? Since you consider the lack of restroom facilities a "joke of a reason", pray tell, I'm curious to find out, where did you relieve yourself on your numerous visits to the cay? In the bushes or in the water? Did you ever consider where the cups, foil paper, napkins and bottles you used ended up after you frolicked and hopped on your boat ride back to shore?

Sustainability

While I have nothing against providing affordable recreational facilities for Jamaican families, and a sustainable income for our fishermen, we cannot continue to sit by with blindfolds and ruin the environment. There is something called sustainability. How many more trips do you think you would have been able to make to Lime Cay before you, a relative, or one of your friends ended up ill? Who is really the short-sighted one? Something tells me it wasn't the 'underworked' individual/agency that called for its closure.

All the best in your studies, and I sincerely hope your myopia will be cured by the time you complete your thesis.

I am, etc.,

GINGER KNOWLES

Montego Bay

St James