Paedophiles, stop preying on our future! Stop stealing our voices. My heart is in pain, seeing mothers and fathers and communities crying for their loved ones, who have been savagely killed, worse than a stray animal.

After we cry, after the funerals, what is left? What do we do? We must stand, join together, stop waiting on Government, rally the community, so that no more of our children are raped, brutally murdered. We must be our neighbours' eyes, ears and mouth.

We need to fight back, so that our surviving children can live. We must fight back, so that we can see our children become the nurse, teacher, doctor, scientist that they want to become. We must fight back so that every father and mother can behold their grandchildren.

We must wipe our tears and fight 'cause our future depends on it.

- Tehima Mason, jahmalifrancis@yahoo.com, Baltimore, Maryland, Via Go-Jamaica

Moving on

I have just seen the headline in The Gleaner, 'Air J must go'. Excuse me, but, haven't we been there before? Was Air J not privatised before? If the current administration can't seem to run a successful airline, how can we expect them to run a nation? Bad economic times make it necessary to save the 'people's money' and sell their future?

Tourism is fast becoming the lifeblood of Jamaica. How are we going to benefit from all these visitors unless we have the means to invite and bring them to our island? Seems an airline could fit that bill ... a boat or two would be a handy investment as well.

I suggest that 'we' look to the long term and think of our children once more. Education could be wasted without the supportive infrastructure that an enlightened administration might invent.

Short-term politics may get one elected, but it is 'time in' that counts, not so much the timing of the 100-metre dash. Let's break the record and move on.

- Jim Plaxton, jplaxton08@cwjamaica.com

Death penalty

What about having a petition on the death penalty, so the public can vote on it? We the people would like to have a say in this matter.

- Amalfis Martinez, amalfis10@hotmail.com, Ocho Rios