Push cart champions deserved greater prominence

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I HAVE stopped looking at the nightly news since the two stations kept competing with each other to show the largest contingent of oversized half-naked (or closer to fully-naked) women and toothless men grinning and gesticulating in front of the camera(s) for some 'cause' that most of them were not even sure of. Not to mention the most grotesque and graphic pictures that our stomachs could withstand on a daily basis.

So now I keep up with the news from the two leading daily newspapers and the radio stations. I just recently gave up on your competitor when they published that gruesome picture on their front page last week. They capped it yesterday by not mentioning at all the HIV Conference that was held at the Le Meridien. Thank you, Gleaner, for giving us a full page of that vitally needed information.

Now to my criticism of you! Yes you reported on it but I would have missed the article for it was so small, and not even a picture? I am talking about the fact that Jamaica got two gold medals at the World Push Cart Championships in Monte Carlo. The girls defeated Germany and Holland and the men USA and Holland. And that is not inserted on your front page? Especially when I read of all the trials that they went through, they deserved more than that small insert on page 2 of Sport! We need to show them how much we appreciate them and thank them for, once again, showing the world what a great little country we are!

I thoroughly enjoyed your "What's right with Jamaica" series. Have we run out of "what's right"? Now that I have got that off my chest it does help a bit but I really think that we can all examine ourselves and see in what way we can all help to make us proud of our country again, cause the majority of us are good, very good. And The Gleaner can help further this because much more!

I am etc.,

BEV CRANSTON

9 West Armour Heights

Kingston 8

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