The Editor, Sir:

I have read with some amusement and no little amazement that Jamaicans in the diaspora were peeved that the American media chose not to carry those Olympic events in which Jamaica was expected to excel.

The same media houses would have been down here in a flash if the news was about riots, floods, mass murder or mayhem.

They have their cameras and reporters and are perfectly entitled to film or report what they wish. Why should they want to say anything good about us?

It's time we woke up to the fact that if we want to have any positive reports about us, we have to do the reporting ourselves.

We are basking in the glory of our athletes - how they are world class and bringing home the gold, etc. Hey! Check it out! The rest of us are world class too!

All you tech-savvy people! Get moving! Set up your own (world class) communications networks, get funding from the wealthy within your community so that by the next Olympic Games at least, we can beam reports about our own to our own in the Caribbean Diaspora and the African Diaspora.

Instead of fuming at NBC's behaviour, consider it a blessing in disguise, an incentive to start our own communications for our own.

I am etc,

PARTHÉ EDWARDS

7 Calcraft Avenue

Kingston 8