The Editor, Sir:

I address you but my letter goes out to Madame Prime Minister, Mr. Opposition Leader, Madame Carolyn For Justice, Mr. Ombudsman Blair, and Mr. Attorney-General.

I sit here at my computer literally in tears, as I look around me and see what is happening in Jamaica, more so my home town Montego Bay. I write in fear that you forget and publish my name then I will be in trouble.

How can you be thinking about planning an election now, when our country is in a state of turmoil,

Madame Prime Minister, with all due respect to you, can you not see that many mothers are crying and dying. The next generation is being left traumatised as parents are being executed before them. Miss Gomes, where are your placards for justice, Jamaica needs it now. Or is it that you reserve them for police killings?

Mr. Golding, with all my love for the Labour Party, why are you not on the present government case about the violence - only money. Why push for an election NOW, do you have the remedy if you should win? Tell it loud now then surely you will win. With the state of our country, an election will further annihilate our people. You know unscrupulous persons will use it as an opportunity to kill. Remember 1980.

MoBay is screaming

Mr. Blair, do I even need to say anything to you? To all of you, Montego Bay is screaming: parents killed; child tied up; family killed; two-year-old still alive; man killed while sleeping with three-year-old in his arms.

I sit here with tears in my eyes and my heart heavy, scared to speak to anyone lest I offend; scared to say hi to my police friends lest I be labelled an informer and my family annihilated.

My last thing is for the Church. We need to pray and fast FOR Jamaica. Pray for our children as they enter into a world that offers many choices; pray for the parents, teachers, policemen and everyone else.

Sir, I thank you for your space.

I am, etc.,

Sitting and weeping