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NOTEWORTHY: More frequent state of emergency

Published:Wednesday | June 16, 2010 | 12:00 AM

A little country such as Jamaica has more than 1,000 people dying rapidly each year. If we imposed a state of emergency in violent areas at least three times per year (depending on the crime situation), half the number of our people who have been killed (and are dying) by thugs and vicious, stone-hearted brutes, would not have died.

In a country such as Jamaica, the murder capital of the world, with such fearless, fearsome and presumptuous criminals and terrorists, a state of emergency is a must all the time.

Donald Jefferson McKoy

On to Baghdad

Opposition to the Government's anti-gang drive is now emanating from many sectors of society under the guise of 'defence of human rights'. Many who previously lambasted the administration for its ineffective approaches to taming the crime monster, and made much of 'three security ministers and three police commissioners' in two years, are now abandoning the Government on its march to Baghdad.

Say what you will about the last Bush administration and its dubious reasons for going to war in Iraq, that administration knew the importance of completing the job. The last Bush administration paid the price for the mistake of the first Bush administration, in not continuing to Baghdad. This allowed Saddam Hussein to regroup and become a much more dangerous threat.

History will repeat itself in Jamaica, if the present administration makes the same mistake. We must continue to Baghdad.

Phillip Chambers

Independent from what?

Look what you have done with your freedom.

You have torn it up and created a hell-hole kingdom.

Marcus Garvey predicted this from those with mentality of a slave

They forever fail when they don't know how to behave.


The leaders must be above the mentality of the masses,

Not mere fellow followers or a pack of jackasses,

We need goals and some clear direction

For we are on the road to doom and this is no supposition.


We are not independent from ignorance or fear

Or hunger, hatred, addiction, and minds that not clear

For any nation to be independent and free

The masses of the people must work for victory.

John Edwards