The Editor, Sir:

I am amazed at the unnecessary controversy the work of a newspaper cameraman and now a cartoonist can incite.

Are we so tribally divided that the press cannot highlight what they see as peculiar or give the news a pictorial representation without persons taking umbrage? After all, when Leandro caricatured our public figures, there was no hue and cry about any of it, so what has changed?

As a Jamaican in the diaspora, I am more concerned at whether or not there is going to be any public examination of what has been taking place in Montego Bay. We only fight crime by the use of guns and bullets - the old and antiquated way. It is time we had an intelligent approach that searches for answers, and there are many, and make a concerted effort to deal with even one strand of the problem at a time.

That effort would pay far richer dividends than to squabble over the caricature of the Prime Minister by a person whose vocation is to make caricatures of even the most serious situation so that some levity is injected into our news and opinions.

I am, etc.,

MIDDLETON WILSON

middletonwilson@bellsouth.net

Via Go-Jamaica