THE EDITOR, Sir:
JAMAICA MY island home! Well is it? Almost everyone I've spoken to whose dream, like mine, is to return and set up home in Jamaica, is having second thoughts. Why we are not encouraged to come back home and live, much less to come and invest in the country? The system is designed to take most of what we have in duty taxes and whatever we are left with is likely to be taken away by the jobless thieves.
There are not enough jobs for the educated; what chance do the uneducated have? Yet I saw police chasing the hustler around like criminals and the guys who are waiting for them to take what these people earn are left by the police to carry out their robberies, because they are too busy arresting the people who are trying to send their fatherless child/children to school, college or even university.
Tell me why these police find so much time to harass/arrest the trying men and women. The British government wrote off over $4 billion in debt but we are still in reverse. Why?
Why do we Jamaicans kill each other for politics? Why are we doing this to paradise? Why do so many of us lower our flag, instead of flying it high? I am tired of seeing Jamaica and Jamaicans in the news for all the wrong reasons. As soon as something nice about Jamaica/Jamaicans come in headlines for something good, there comes a couple of bad things to knock it off the headline. Why? When will we stop? Can somebody tell me?
I am, etc.,
V. MILTON
milmil@ntlworld.com
London, England
Via Go-Jamaica
