Eye for an eye

In regards to Dr Orville Taylor's commentary, 'Hung up on hanging', I feel an eye for an eye. I live in the United States and murderers stay in jail, for years, living high off the hog, having access to cable, phone, cellphone, able to get married and have sex while in jail, while the victim is long buried and the family had to have therapy to continue to live, marriages broken up due to stress and the killers continue to live their lives with a few minor adjustments. Where is the fairness? I say hang them high at high noon in front of all to see, just like the Western movies. It may not be a deterrent, however, they will not be around to know what is on TV next season.

Fed up, tiffany.baker@yahoo.com, Via Go-Jamaica

Degradation

I am indeed distressed that the Government and the Opposition are so blinded by their personal grandstanding while the nation continues in a spiral of degradation. The utterances of who stole sand, who "bail" out which private school and which board should be fired, is pure frivolity.

When I listen, in horror, to the number of rapes, abductions and child murders, it sends chills up my spine and leads me to think, where are those politicians, who claim that they love Jamaica and Jamaican people so much? I now understand why they claim love for this country, this is the place where you can give your family and friends lavish job positions, the place where you can do and say as you please if you grease the right palm with the right amount, it is the place where 'everything criss' and nothing is a problem. It is a place where police hide behind statistics instead of doing something.

Jamaica has become a haven for developing children, who feel that early sexual activity is ok, it has become a place where citizens have to block roads to 'chop up' criminals.

I am a Jamaican but it grieves my heart to say that I am a proud Jamaican.

I am, etc.,

Distressed

Two-timers

American men are coming to Jamaica to work and keep telling us Jamaican women that they are not married when, in fact, they are. They are here working and when it's time for them to go back to the United States, they go back to their wives and forget about us.

Audry Shaw, audryshaw@hotmail.com, 4781 Angel Ave, Colorado Springs, USA, Via Go-Jamaica

On target

The editorial on casinos could not have been more on target. Jamaica's tourism industry should be 10 times larger than it is and the Government should be doing everything in its power to help it grow. What are we waiting for?

Bob Williams, St James