Disgraceful attacks

I do believe in defining the policy on what is family and keeping Jamaica from what is now the plight of the United States with the issue of gay marriage. Despite my strong beliefs about preservation of the Christian family, I am more concerned about the killing of gay people and other innocent Jamaican citizens.

I am a Jamaican living in the US. My dream is to return to my country but everytime I read about the crime in Jamaica it is like reading about the war in Iraq.

The recent attacks on females are just disgraceful. Women are the backbone of the family in Jamaica, when they are afraid to go to work what happens next? Here goes the cowardly Jamaican men always running away from their responsibilities. When will the men in Jamaica stand up?

Winsome Campbell, Sunwac @comcast.net

Financial stress

It is with scant surprise that I read the sobering report by Tendai Franklyn-Brown titled, 'Scores of vehicles on auction block', which appeared in The Gleaner on November 13. This is just another example of the financial stress our economy is experiencing. With the collapse of Cash Plus and the other investment schemes, consumer demand and investment will be adversely affected.

The financial meltdown in the United States will result in the certain contraction of remittances and grave consequences for our tourism sector. The reports of rising mortgage defaults will only shake confidence in our financial markets. The fact that our Government now has its back to the wall, with few available options, may hasten a social and financial crisis.

R Oscar Lofters, lofters1@aol.com, Kingston 8, Via Go-Jamaica

Taking care

I would like to make an appeal to parents to be careful who they send to schools to pick up their children.

Parents need to constantly remind their children that drivers they call auntie and uncle must be reported if they are touching them in a way that makes them uncomfortable. Gone were the days when children should be warned about strangers only. They need to be admonished about members of the family, who may appear too friendly. The children are the future, and if we lose so many of them so often we will not have a future.

Tricia, trisha.henry@hotmail.com, Via Go-Jamaica