Congrats, DPP
I must take time out to offer my heartiest congratulation to Ms Paula Llewellyn on her appointment as director of public prosecutions. It has been a long haul, Ms Llewellyn, but I will say that the race is not for the swift, but those who endure to the end.
I have monitored your career, I have watched you in the 'bullring', enduring challenges most women would have felt timid to face. You have come a far way. Ms Llewellyn, congratulations, from my household to yours. And may the good Lord bless and keep you.
- Collette Brown, pumkin_65@yahoo.com, Mt Lambert, St Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago
Via Go-Jamaica
Speaking English
Thanks to The Gleaner for highlighting Godfrey Fisher's speech to students, encouraging them to speak English. I also give God thanks for teachers like Mr Fisher, who are not afraid to risk the ire of the vast majority who seem to glory in the use of dialect.
I have noted that the acceptance of dialect as the preferred way to speak has also given rise to a breakdown in decent behaviour and decorum in all strata of the society. It is no longer desirable to be regarded as a 'lady' or a 'gentleman'.
Keep highlighting the positive, and I hope that a new day will dawn in Jamaica, land that I love.
- Pauline Smith, psmithjam@hotmail.com
Dancehall analysis
There is need for analysis of dancehall and its unquestionable impact and influence on behaviour. Even as the disorder created by dancehall itself becomes the new order of the present-day Jamaican society. Furthermore, there are criticisms that can be made about those who perform in this genre.
In view of all this, the educational system, with the help of those who are charged with directing it (including the Government), should take full responsibility for the promotion of dynamic interaction and coordination between artistic creativity and other policy domains, such as education itself, working life, urban planning and industrial and economic development strategies for the benefit of all.
- D.K. Nelson, butvenus@yahoo.com
