THE EDITOR, Sir:
A RECENT event puts me back to when I was a little girl in the Jamaica that was; when I came to Kingston in the sixties and times like those - when we would stand behind barricades as Jamaicans were so orderly. We would listen and watch annually lighting of municipal Christmas trees at Hero's Park.
Fireworks displays were a beauty and only lawmen would be seen with guns which they rarely needed to use!
Those cracking sounds heard most Christmas or mainly New Year's would be clappers or fireworks and would mean celebration of joy.
When public Christmas tree would stay from Yuletide till New Year's and no one touch even a bulb on it! Everyone would just come to view the beauty and to sit in his/her favourite corner in the park.
I dream that Jamaica will be like that again.
I am, etc.,
MINNA ATKINS-DAVIS
27 July Road
Kingston 7
