NOTE-WORTHY - Thanks to many
Please allow me to express sincere gratitude and thanks to some of the world's best people. I took ill while at work on August 26, 2007. I was taken unconsciously to the hospital and diagnosed with having a cerebral aneurysm. I spent 10 days in the Intensive Care Unit and three weeks recuperating on the ward.
During the time of my severe illness, there were several persons who contributed greatly to the restoration of my health and for this I am truly grateful. The names are too many, but for those who I haven't mentioned, you're always in my heart.
I'd like to begin by thanking my family, the management and staff of The Jamaica Pegasus, Eldon Bremner and my church family; the wonderful doctors, nurses and ancillary staff of the University Hospital of the West Indies. Special thanks to Drs. Carl Bruce and Tanya Clarke and the members of your A-One team. This is a testimony to all that God is still in the business of healing, and for me to be alive is an example that God truly exists.
- Lorene Francis, lorenefrancis1997@yahoo.com
Police cameras
In many of the more progressive countries of the world, the police invite along with their own camera team, the press, radio and TV along when they are going on planned or high-profile assignments to prove that there is no 'cover up'.
We have in Jamaica a Minister of National Security who appears as if someone has forgotten to change his batteries, but I can't believe that it is beyond the wit of that department, or indeed the police top brass, to copy this way of evidence gathering that could silence the police critics and back up their cases in court. What is the price of a camera loaded with time and date stamp compared to a high-powered rifle? What about the highly skilled British police that we employ, don't they advise on this basic idea or are they going the way of the British Hong Kong police?
- Phil Foster, Southfield, St. Elizabeth.
Future of Hope Gardens
I hear rumours of Hope Gardens being turned into a theme park. Is this true? I hope not. Jamaica needs these spaces and Hope Gardens with its history needs to be preserved for all eternity. That means no new building of any type whatsoever, nor should it be converted into anything like a theme park. It needs to remain as it was destined to be, a garden.
We, Jamaicans, at home and abroad, have to show some urgent civic pride in the things we claim to treasure, Hope Gardens included. True, it is an expense, and true, it has rough times with careless and negligent management, but it is also the only place where so many memories are made to be treasured for a lifetime; such as a palm tree with lovers signatures carved into it, dated all the way back to 1953.
- Dwight Rankine
