Questions for a lasting peace THE EDITOR, Sir: "PNP group targets Corporate Area crime". So read one of The Gleaner's headlines of July 5, 2001. The following questions are in the minds of every concerned Jamaican: 1. Is the programme another band-aid prescription similar to the several peace treaties? 2. How long will these monetary awards last? 3. By making the programme bi-partisan, is this a guarantee that it will be continued regardless of who is in power? 4. Is the programme likely to extend beyond the Corporate Area should the present spate of crime escalate? 5. Are musicians so patriotic that they would trade the likely generous returns from their music for such paltry sums? The country waits with bated breath to see the two parties work genuinely together, for indeed that will be a rare political moment unlikely to escape the pens of historians. I am, etc., PAMELA V. LOWE wonderful@mail.infochan.com
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