THE EDITOR, Sir:
AS MUCH as I believe that we should help the Haitians, I wonder when are we going to stop helping them. I read in The Gleaner of April 5, 2004 where 41 Haitian boat people arrived in Port Antonio because they claimed that they were being persecuted by rebel forces.
I think this is becoming too much of a financial burden for taxpayers and I wonder how many of these boat people are legitimate cases. I believe most of them are coming to Jamaica, because the Jamaican Govern-ment will not send them back.
Within the first month of the Haitian crisis, a number of Haitians arrived in Miami by boat, but the Bush Administra-tion sent them back to Haiti. Since, this happened, the Haitians stopped going to the United States of America by boat.
I wonder when the Jamaican Government will realise that these boat people should be sent back to Haiti, because all the Jamaican Government is doing is taking on more social and economic problems as well as crime and violence that some of these boat people bring along with them to Jamaica.
Finally, I think the Govern-ment of Jamaica should tell the electorate of Jamaica what they plan to do with the boat people who came from Haiti and were accepted by the Jamaican Government.
I am, etc.,
CARGILL KELLY Sr.
c465@erols.com
Manassas, Virginia
Via Go-Jamaica
