Let reckless parents suffer

I agree wholeheartedly Ms Campbell's letter in Wednesday's Gleaner urging the imprisonment of careless parents. It is because of the lack of education and parental care why so many children are on the streets begging for their survival.

These are the very same children who grow up in an environment without much love, schooling or parenting but instead get into gangs and become resentful of society because of the hard-core lifestyles they lived as peddlers, hustlers and perhaps killers. They, in turn, have children and the cycle repeats itself into what we have today, a population of underproduction which cannot make a contribution to the country in any positive way.

We are overpopulated with illiterates and the only way to reduce this level is to let reckless parents suffer the consequences of imprisonment.

- Luci Eanes

luci_emanuel@hotmail.com

49 Old Hope Rd

Kingston 6

Bible myths

Rev Devon Dick's column (February 26) regarding Bible myths is interesting. The Bible is neither a book of logic nor history. In fact, one is required to suspend reason in order to accept the Bible.

How can any rational person accept that a snake tempted Eve to commit sin. This kind of fairy tale can only be accepted by blind faith. It is impossible to convince people with irrational beliefs to apply reason to their thinking processes.

- R Oscar Lofters

lofters1@aol.com

JLP and SLB

The following promises re the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB) were made by the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in its election manifesto, and reported in The Gleaner of August 1, 2007.

1) They promised to issue government-guaranteed education bonds to increase significantly the loan amounts available to tertiary-level students through the SLB at reduced interest rates subsidised by annual budgetary provisions.

2) Extend repayment period to 15 years, excluding the three-year study time.

3) Restructure the payment plan so that in the first five years, students would have the option of just repaying the interest on the loan.

At this time, with many graduates/parents losing their jobs, with new graduates facing serious employment challenges, and with the SLB having serious difficulties meeting students' loan demands, it is very important that the Government honours these undertakings.

- Wayne McKenzie

jahjahsee@gmail.com

Red Hills PO

St Andrew