The Editor, Sir:

The Beijing experience has truly been uniting. Never in our recent history have we been so proud to be Jamaicans and it is heartening to note that since the track and field events began, the entire print and electronic media ensured that Jamaicans were abreast with and benefited from the euphoria.

What a uniting force our athletes have been!

The Beijing experience has demonstrated that we can be a people to be reckoned with when we come together. Over time we have allowed politics, to a greater extent, and other things, to set us up against our own brothers and sisters.

Build on positive relations

I believe that this is the opportune time to start the process of uniting Jamaicans and we all have a part to play. For a long time, we have expressed our disgust with the level of brutality and lawless-ness that continues to permeate our society.

And, since the Beijing experience has put us positively in the news all around the world, we would want to build on those positive public relations that we have achieved. The euphoria of Beijing has put us all on a high and this is the direction in which we must move.

As our great hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey said "a nation that is divided against itself will never stand". Let us stand firm in unity and move Jamaica forward for the benefit of all of us.

I am, etc.,

PAT BIGNALL

wilbig@cwjamaica.com