I was intrigued by the ingenuity, commonsense and public spiritedness demonstrated by the behaviour of the army ants, as carried in your article in Monday's paper, entitled: "Smarty-pants ants".

From this, an Orwellian vision suddenly occurred to me: if all of those politicians who feel that they must win back their seats in the election, unscrupulous public officials, greedy business moguls, dirty lyricists and murderers could emulate the ants and go and lie quietly in the thousands of potholes on our roads, the rest of us could go smoothly and safely about our business.

Naturally, they'd all be flattened, but just think, with them out of the way, in the brave new Jamaica, we could change things for the better. We could use the reparation funds owed to us by the European slavers that some are clamouring for, to eradicate illiteracy by educating every child in our country and improve and develop better health care systems for all. (See, Ms Walrond's article, "Free education: Barbados shows the way" in The Sunday Gleaner).

- Megan Wilheim, marwilla@aol.com, St. Thomas, Via Go-Jamaica