A common complaint among some students who are not attending schools in St. Thomas is that their birth certificates are not available.

Parents should ensure that their child/children are properly registered in a school by obtaining the necessary document(s) that are needed from the Registrar General Department (RGD).

There have been some complaints as it relates to the slow processing of documents from the RGD.

As the new school term commences, and with the offer of payment of school fees in all public schools, both parents and students should take advantage of such an offer.

- Charles Brown, charliebrown@hotmail.com

As a retired soldier from the United States Army, my goal was to retire and come back home to invest in my country; but every day I read that there are at least four people shot and killed by gunmen across the country.

Why doesn't the Jamaican Government put the JDF on the street to help patrol the hot spots where these crimes are being committed?

The JDF doesn't have any other commitment, as does the U.S Army in other countries. Therefore, the JDF needs to be out helping to combat these inhumane acts against innocent Jamaicans.

There are so many of us who want to come back to our beautiful island but we are so afraid of the everyday killing. Jamaica is too small to be averaging this amount of killing on a daily basis.

Please, I am begging the new government, we want to come home but there's more to be done to control the crime.