It was so refreshing to see and read the headline of The Gleaner of March 27, 'Saved'. As a habit I normally read the sports page first but when I saw this headline, I had to read it first. It spoke of Jamaica College hosting a one-week gospel crusade for the students at this noble institution that has been plagued with some level of violence. The good thing about all of this was that some of the boys committed their lives to God.
I must say congratulations to the principal, Ruel Reid, and staff and all the other stakeholders involved for coming up with this wonderful idea. From all indications, and from reports, the discipline at Jamaica College has improved tremendously, so whatever Reid and team are doing, it is certainly working.
- Earland Morgan
earlandm@yahoo.com
Montego Bay, St James
I am saddened that you should seek to award attorney Bert Samuels for his letter about citizen's involvement and the police's general activities. Decent citizens of Jamaica do not need any lecture from him as to what they should do to catch bad cops. I am not defending rogue cops, but I am highlighting the hypocrisy of many of our people.
Why not lecture the people about putting the camera on themselves, to highlight the rogues among them? This would probably reduce the enormous crime rate in the island.
Jamaica in general is an island of rogues and therefore rogues will always be in the police department. But if citizens spend most of their time beating down the police when they mess up while murder, robbery, rape and other crime and violence are exploding in the country then Jamaica is lost.
I therefore say to the people of Jamaica turn the camera on yourself and your neighbour and get involved in solving the mammoth crime problem.
- E.A. Wright
jamaicansnitch@gmail.com
Florida, USA
Caribbean neighbours Trinidad and Tobago remain 'light-years' ahead of Jamaica as a footballing power evidenced by their political represen-tation at CONCACAF and FIFA, their enhanced and sustained infrastruc-tural development and the progression of their senior national team in tandem with the success of their U20s bid to Egypt.
It is therefore imperative to recall that at the end of T&T's disappointment at its failed bid to qualify for the 1990 World Cup, a commission of inquiry was set up to fully understand why the famed T&T 'Strike Force' was narrowly edged by the USA national team in a match needing only a draw to qualify.
It is within this historical reference and context that I am suggesting the setting up of a Jamaican commission of inquiry into the 'massive failure' of the nation's Reggae Boyz football programme.
- Dr Iman Blak
blaqnity@yahoo.com