Sometimes I have to cry with them when they are mistreated at school. I am not here saying that we should agree with their bad behaviour at times, but as adults, we must learn patience and kind words. Who knows? This could make a difference in a child's life.
Some children are coming from a home where there is cursing and beating, put-downs, and to face the same thing in school is too much. Let our teachers be taught to be patient, show love and kindness instead of hate. Let us save our children, even the ones that are slow learners.
- Judith Carr
fjb4561@yahoo.com
Whitewater MeadowsSt Catherine
Reject US fear-mongering
Larry Stout's letter titled "Nuclear weapons and rogue groups" is a glaring example of how easily people fall prey to US propaganda. The notion that some terrorists who are hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan, or any other mountains, could easily construct, transport and detonate a nuclear bomb in New York is absurd.
Detonating a nuclear bomb is not similar to lighting a stick of dynamite. It is a complex, costly and dangerous proposition, far outside the capability of all terrorist groups. If a small nuclear weapon was so easy to obtain, transport and detonate, why would the 9/11 terrorists go to the trouble of hijacking all those planes with box cutters and needlessly give up their lives? It is time that we stop falling prey to American fear-mongering.
- R .Oscar Lofters
lofters1@aol.com
Kingston 8
Put Jamaica first
How can this country possibly survive if we live in the shadow of constant electioneering?
Isn't it time politicians put Jamaica first? Don't we have enough problems without the added expense of constant and expensive politicising, and now, the unnecessary tacking on of additional and expensive parliamentary seats to appease party faithful?
In case our politicians haven't noticed it, the world is in a serious financial crisis and with major crime, gang wars, poverty, and collapsing infrastructure all around us, electioneering and party-one-up-manship should be the farthest things from our minds.
- Marguerite Gauron
mgauron@cwjamaica.com