NOTE-WORTHY
Published:Tuesday | June 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Gun amnesty
With the war against 'shottas' now in motion, I think the implementation of a gun amnesty would be a great help in getting the guns out of hiding places the security forces may never find.
Elton Dexter
Destabilising thecrime beast
Robert Boothe in his letter titled 'Sacrificing principle for expediency' on Sunday, June 6, forgets that Bruce Golding has been accountable, transparent and honest to a fault - telling the stinking truth as is and doing something about the nasty truth that former prime ministers P.J. Patterson, Michael Manley and Edward Seaga had not the guts to do - destabilise the crime beast within Jamaica that has stifled fiscal, economic and societal growth for nearly 40 years.
Beresford A. Davidson
Accountability from security forces
The security forces need to be retrained, while others be dismissed and held accountable for their actions. They do not have the right to execute innocent people, abuse children, steal and destroy. The security forces came in to fight illegal activity, but in return appear to have committed criminal and violent acts themselves.
C.R.
Ganja compensation
It's time for the Government of Jamaica to seriously think about bringing charges against the United States (US) for criminal acts in destroying our herb crop, labelling it as the drug marijuana, while they cultivate it in Califona for medicinal purposes during the 1970s and even currently.
Jamaican farmers should be compensated for such acts, which derailed the Jamaican economy and helped to drive it into the current poverty-stricken situation.
In the US where there is an oil spill from a BP oil drillig facility, which is damaging the livelihoods of the people in the affected areas, the American government is demanding compensation from BP.
Why is it then the US cannot be forced to pay compensation to the people of Jamaica for such criminal and hypocritical actions against the herb farmers of Jamaica, who today still have the scars from those sophisticated economical wounds?
Ras Howarde Henry