Road rage intensified
I am in total support of Dr Garth Rattary's commentary in Monday's Gleaner. Last week, to obey the traffic law, I stopped on the red light at the Mona Heights and Old Hope Road intersection. I was told many four letter words by a taxi driver who was behind me. In his anger, he pulled out from behind me and came in front of me. Still abusing me, I told him that I do not break the law. He continued using the most obscene language. As soon as the light was green, a female in the line behind me got on her horn.
Doctor, please write as often as you feel it necessary.
A news item in the print media recently spoke to cameras at these locations. How quickly can we have these? The breaking of the Road Traffic Law seems worse since the report about cameras.
- Goldie Falconer
goldiesimpson@rocketmail.com
Kingston
The West Indies cricket team is a disgrace to Test cricket; they are not qualified to play in Test matches. Raise the bar, not lower it. Is there a 'F' class for them? They are everybody's practice team.
- Ken R
one_kenrose@sympatico.ca
Canada
Stop the importation of foreign goods; that's the only way we will buy Jamaica, eat Jamaica and build Jamaica. It's not the little people importing the container load of foreign goods; it's the same government allowing it, just like everything else.
- Everton Hewitt
Fufighter94@aol.com
USA
It is wrong for a woman to abandon her child and should rightly be punished for this. However, if that is the case, shouldn't we be also punishing the many men who have been doing the same for decades? Are they any less culpable than the mothers who do it after the child is born?
It seems as if men get away with just about anything. Well, ladies, perhaps more of you need to call for more and demand more. I am a man and it sickens me to see how men can just easily walk away from a pregnant mother and nothing happens, and the second she leaves the child she is behind bars.
As I said, it is wrong for a woman to leave her child, but I believe we need to deal with her in a more understanding way. Until we start to impose more stern punishment on these men we shouldn't be so quick to punish women for what they learn from men. They need counselling and another means of punishment, but not jail time.
- Brian
jam_qol@yahoo.com
Mandeville