Kudos to Matilda's Corner cops

On Friday, February 13, I had a medical emergency and was heading to the University Hospital of the West Indies. Along the way, the traffic proved to be hard to manoeuvre and as such, I stopped at the Matilda's Corner Police Station where woman Corporal Cleghorn got me a police escort. On my way to the hospital, a disobedient motorist who failed to stop for an emergency vehicle almost caused an accident.

On arrival at the hospital the police personnel, Corporal Cleghorn and Constable Fearon, who were very professional, assisted me in maintaining my composure and focusing on the emergency at hand.

I want to use this medium to thank the three police personnel who assisted in making what could have been a disastrous day less stressful for those involved.

I also want to plead with motorists, please pull over for someone flashing lights, tooting a horn with hazard lights flashing and do adhere to the road code by stopping for emergency vehicles ... . The life you save might well be yours or someone you care about.

- Renae Mills

uwidite99@yahoo.com

Vineyard Town

Kingston 3

Worth banning

This letter is in response to Ian Boyne's article of February 15 regarding the banning of daggering and other such lyrics from the public media. While i am yet to hear the song, I am sure from all the commotion I have been reading on the internet that it was worth banning.

But if we are going to do what is right for once, lets clean the house once and for all. First let us take down the statue of the naked people in Emancipation Park in New Kingston and replace it with a teacher with a book in hand and a group of students sitting around him eagerly wanting to emancipate themselves through learning.

Let's ban the nakedness in carnival and all lewd music on public transportation.

- Pharale Jafrikan

jafrikanman@hotmail.com

Pickering, Canada

Send home consultants too

I am in agreement with the Sunday Gleaner article that the civil service should be cut by no less than 30 per cent. I would also add that all retired civil servants working as consultants in the various government ministries and statutory bodies should be sent home with immediate effect.

It is certainly not fair for some people to be receiving two cheques each month when there are so many university graduates not able to get a job. Some of these said unemployed graduates are not able to make a single payment to the The Students Loan Bureau.

- B. Grey

bgrey44@yahoo.com