The Editor, Sir:

I recall when my children were growing up, one of the things I would tell them when I have to correct them is, "If you won't control yourself from inside, you will be controlled from outside." As with an individual, so with a nation.

I read with sadness the report of yet another foreign cop coming to 'assist' the Jamaica Constabulary Force to do its job. I wondered how is it that a country with so many educated people has so many deficits. Are we to believe that with all its so-called 'doctors', Jamaica is unable to put these 'talented' minds together to solve its issues? After all, aren't most of them foreign-educated? Do they all suffer from permanent head damage (PhD)?

The NAACP's slogan 'A mind is a terrible thing to waste' needs to be adopted and used in Jamaica as a spark for true education - building up the individual, building the nation.

Jamaica is very rich and foreigners are eating our lunches and popping the bags in our faces, and we can't see the acres of diamonds in our yard. Tourism can make farmers and others very rich if they are helped to improve the standard of their products and services and the Government negotiates with those who want to do business in Jamaica that for them to get the tax breaks they will be obliged to buy 'things Jamaican'.

A word for the rich: if you help the poor to get rich, you will automatically get richer, can't you see that?

I am, etc.,

LOCKSLEY MAITLAND,

Dallas, Texas.