Work for women
published: Sunday | December 18, 2005

THE EDITOR, Sir:

IT NEVER ceases to amaze me how the community can raise a great hue and cry when a criminal is cut down, insisting that he was 'killed in cold blood', but there is no sound or protest when a policeman is killed. However, I think something can be done to reduce the crime factor. As it is, many of the criminals in these communities are the 'Robin Hoods'. They steal from the rich and give to the poor, especially the women and children. So the women look after and protect the criminals, for they represent food and money to them. It is, therefore, obvious that when their food and money are cut off by the death of their source, they will react.

If work of any kind could be provided for these women, they would not be dependent on the criminals. These women would feel better about themselves, have some amount of independence, take care of their children, help to clean up their community (by surrendering the criminals), and everyone would be better off for it. There is enough work in the Corporate Area to occupy many of these women: helping to fix those hundreds of potholes in the roads; cleaning up the old buildings downtown; bagging-up trash; helping to do different things in some public offices; etc.

Let us take back our country, clean it up, fix it up, and restore our pride in Jamaica, land we love.

I am, etc.,

HERMAN DOUCE

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