School violence
I am sick and tired of reading about the violence in schools, and the attack on teachers and students.
It is the responsibility of the Government to provide a safe environment in which students can attend classes, and teachers can teach without assaults and threats.
The minister of education should see that proper security is implemented at the schools, and do so now before more violence and murder happens.
I agree with the teachers in St Ann for their demonstration that the appropriate authorities and the public can see the violence that exists in the schools.
- Harold P. Walker Sr, haroldpwalker@hotmail.com, Via Go-Jamaica
No fire unit
I would like to know why the Frankfield Fire Station in Clarendon is neglected at all times.
There is no fire unit there on most occasions. When there is a fire in and around the area, a truck has to come from as far as May Pen, Christiana or Mandeville, miles away. By the time it reaches there if iron is burning, it would melt.
Officers there need help.
- Livingstone Reid, Livingstonereid@yahoo.ca, Via Go-Jamaica
Conflict of interests
Pardon my conjecture, but I thought it salient to query the plausibility of having the head of the day-to-day runnings of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Investment, Dr Jean Dixon (permanent secretary), simultaneously sitting aloft the hierarchy of the Scotia Group (See p A6, Gleaner 16/02/08).
I reckon, I do forsee an inherent conflict of interest, if Dr Dixon, who heads the ministry where among its purview, rests the oversight of the local financial sector (in a nutshell). If for argument's sake, BNS committed a breach, isn't it forseeble that she not instruct her ministry to turn a blind eye?
Since questions such as these can even remotely be fathomed, it is my strong conviction that the holders of influential positions in public/government bodies, be given an ultimatum to choose one interest or the other, as both cannot work symbiotically devoid of issues of credibility being put to the fore.
- Kae Dee Jae, kdj1713@yahoo.com
