What would Louise Bennett-Coverley think if she were here to hear the dishonourable debate over Patois? I am not Jamaican. I do love Jamaica and I read with regret statements apparently made by persons who would rather forget that part of their heritage.

Patois is to me colourful, exhilarating and very challenging to 'foreigners' (of which I am one, although mi Jamaican frens dem say mi Jamerican.

May the Lord God teach us to just 'be' and rejoice in our being. Peace, love and blessings to all.

- Dorothy Bailey

blidorot@aol.com

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Big up to Lalah

Your articles bring me back home. Those are the stories that I have longed to hear. I believe if you take a video camera with you and document your stories, you would have the most popular half-hour to an hour show, bar none.

Keep up the good work. You are doing more (with humour) to keep people's blood pressure down than any doctor I know!

- Arawak

jperry6262@yahoo.com

Hollywood, Florida

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Clans talk?

We as Jamaicans should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing the Clansman gang to hold a press conference in Jamaica.

As Jamaicans, we are already looked down on by the world as a set of people who commit the worst crimes against our fellow countrymen. But to allow a criminal organisation to hold a press conference? Wow!

No wonder many Jamaicans who live overseas decide not to return to Jamaica to reside in their senior years. Jamaica should be ashamed.

- Gary Lindo

gelnhausen@gmail.com

Orlando

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