Remove those cables

This is an open letter to the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) suggesting that they remove the high power cables from the beach called Ennis Bay in Portland, as it is a major disaster waiting to happen.

As an engineer, I am totally shocked to see uninsulated high voltage cables above the sea water on such a popular beach used by tourists and locals. The stretch of wires is so long they form a joint directly above the waters. Its madness and when these cables eventually break, many lives will be lost.

JPS take heed, you have been warned.

- G Parker,xtparker@yahoo.com

They just don't care

I would like to find out from the present and past governments why teachers are paid for more than four months each year while on holidays. I cannot understand how teachers are given vacation leave during school time. I understand that during summer holidays, teachers in other countries take their vacation leave.

We need a performance-based pay system for teachers; we cannot be paying top salaries for non-performers.

Teachers don't care about the economic state of the country; all they want is their pay. Most of them don't care about the children, as long as they get their pay.

- Concerned citizen,Clarendon

Congratulations Ian

The award of the Order of Distinction, Commander Class, to journalist Ian Boyne is well deserved. I am sure that others who read his columns in The Sunday Gleaner's In Focus and watch Profile and Religious Hard Talk on TVJ join me in congratulating him.

I recommend that his articles published in The Gleaner's In Focus section should be made compulsory reading for social science students at university level. There is much to be learnt from his columns in terms of knowledge, clear thinking and objectivity.

Bravo Ian, keep up the good work; as a journalist you stand primus inter pares.

- E. Leo Gunter, Kingston 8

Truly a man's best friend

I refer to the story about dogs being man's best friend published on August 17.

Many years ago a Rastafarian man lived in Trench Town, behind the fire station on Spanish Town Road. He died in the bushes and his dog stood vigil for days, so no crows could touch him. The dog was adopted by a lady in St Andrew and lived years after.

- G. Gordon, Kingston 10