Wireless electricity as an option

Just a quick comment on the idea about putting electric power lines underground. My question is: why put them underground when electricity can be transmitted wireless?

The inventor of alternating current, Nikola Tesla, had the patent for transmitting current without wires.

This patent is over 100 years old and can now be utilised freely.

For the technically skilled here is an opportunity to catapult Jamaica into the 22nd century and beyond.

mortusm@yahoo.com

No flag disrespect

I'd love to take a different view of the use of our flag, especially in recent times. Rather than a display of disrespectful familiarity, I'd like to see it as a heightened sense of national pride - an exuberant surge of belonging.

Each time I'm on the road and I see the Jamaican flag being sported on motor vehicles, I have to remind myself that I'm still in Jamaica, and then the sense of pride kicks in. This, to me, is a major underpinning for patriotism.

Did you notice, in addition to the extensive use of the Jamaican flag, the many spontaneous calls for the intensification of the fight on crime, and for criminals to reform? This means that Jamaicans love Jamaica. Be careful that you don't dampen the spirit. Who knows, maybe the conventions of how a flag is to be treated will be rewritten.

charock01@yahoo.com

Antisocial post office feature

Can someone please tell me the rationale for a one-way mirror in all the glass panes at the Cross Roads Post Office?

This, to me, is most antisocial and seems a wanton waste of public funds.

When you come to buy your stamp, etc, you have to 'peep' through a hole to see someone on the inside!

If it was meant for security reasons, why couldn't someone thought of the silver-bright decorative mesh?

Aren't we taking 'security' to a ridiculous level in Jamaica?

osr@cwjamaica.com

Bridge will collapse soon

The Alligator Church bridge (serving surrounding districts of Bellevue, Mill Banks, Ginger House and Kent) in the Rio Grande Valley, Portland, doesn't need to be repaired, it needs to be replaced.

If people keep driving on that bridge daily it's just a matter of time before something devastating happens.

Why wait for deaths or a collapse before fixing the problem? I hope this message reaches somewhere, and I am more than happy to help in any way possible.

byron.somers@century21.com