Letters

On April 22, I came back home to visit my ailing father. I arrived in Montego Bay and had to travel to St Mary. I rented a car in Montego Bay. Just outside of Falmouth I was stopped by a cop in a spot check. He checked the papers and said the insurance had expired.

He remarked: "I won't give you a ticket if you can help the officer have a drink." Of course, this comment shocked both my son and I, but I handed him US$5. I thought, is this what my country has come to? It is really sad to see our police harrassing people like this.

Tracey Morgan

Who will tell?

Who will inform on Dudus Coke! Who has the courage and guts to stop this man that is destroying our country, destroying peoples lives, and destroying our children's future! He who knows should stand up and do the right thing, call the police, tell them where he is. Be a man among men even though you are guilty too! Maybe God will forgive you! I pray that this person answers my call.

Sinner

Cutting crime

The Jamaican security forces can cut crime by 90 per cent if they take the following steps:

Buy more boats for patrolling Jamaican waters looking for drugs and gun smugglers.

Raise the pay of security forces to a reasonable amount.

hire more security personnel and build more police stations.

Upgrade the telephone system and put telephones in every community, and make phones available to all Jamaicans.

Prosecute individuals who harbour criminals in there house (stiff jail time).

Relocate residents of Tivoli Gardens and other problem areas.

Turn Tivoli Gardens into an industrial area.

Jabin

Refuse Apartheid

As a Jamaican residing in the United States for many years, I find strength in the motto 'Out of many, one people'. Jamaicans have an advantage with this mindset.

As a country with valuable citizens and history, Jamaica would be better off excluding TV and radio programmes that poison its atmosphere, especially when those programmes come from a nation with obvious racial problems, such as America.

The article 'The Cost of Being Black' (authors Mazzocco et al., Du Bois Review, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2006, pages 261-297) portrays the situation in America clearly.

The documentary series 'Unnatural Causes' tells of the racial health disparities in America. Racial segregation exists as distinctly in the US as it did in South Africa under apartheid. We would be wise to stop importing it into Jamaica.

Patriotic expatriate