Conservation
Jamaica has an ever increasing oil bill and everyone talks about energy conservation to contain costs, but, is this all just talk? Are the myraid of fluorescent lighting at the new transportation centre in Half-Way Tree powered by an alternate source to JPS?
If yes, then they should proceed to the next government building to make it as 'green'. If no, then all that metal forming the vertebrae could be 'scrapped' and the funds used to retrofit the centre with solar energy.
- V. Fagan, vmhfagan@live.com, Kingston 6, Via Go-Jamaica.
Beach encounter
I refer to the letter from Sheila Bryan titled "Questions about beach rights". I myself suffered a similar fate on the same beach.
I believe the organisation of the beach and its facilities need reorganising as it seems anyone can approach you and demand money as, in my case, when I attempted to use a beach chair I was approached by a young man who did not appear to be a representative of Margaritaville and demanded I pay him 200 dollars and not in a friendly manner. I have not been back since, not a very friendly place.
- Vincent Whyte,
whyte.vincent@mcga.gov.uk, Via Go-Jamaica
Who owns them?
After reading Sheila Bryan's letter in The Gleaner this is a question to the prime minister/Government of Jamaica. Who owns the beaches and beachfronts in Jamaica?
- Earl Brown, lignumvitae89@yahoo.ca, Mississauga, Ontario,
Canada, Via Go-Jamaica
Self-reliance
In the Michael Manley era they had the right idea which was to make Jamaica self-reliant in food production. It was not the idea that was bad it was the times that Jamaica found itself in. Now it is the time for us to start because I think we have no choice. There is a global shift in the way commodities are been traded and this will and is causing rising costs for food.
Jamaicans must produce more of the food they consume, we no longer have a choice. The role of government in this is to make farming profitable by allowing for fair taxes on farmers and helping to keep cheaper foods that are dumped on the local market.
- Christopher Campbell, camo4@charter.net,
Via Go-Jamaica
