LETTER TO THE EDITOR
What is wrong with trying to curb crime?
Monday, November 21, 2005
Dear Sir,
Ms Brown, what is wrong with trying to curb crime in one’s country? No, it is
not only Jamaicans causing problems, as you may care to be informed. There are
112 countries on the visa list. However, as always Jamaicans, seem to take it
very personally.
I must say that the timing of the new visa requirements could be called in
question. Look at it this way, would you knock out your windows on a regular
basis? No, but if there is a fire in your house and that is the only way to get
out, wouldn’t you use it? Or would you burn for the sake of propriety?
Come on, we needed to take action; we are also applying pressure on internal
criminals regardless of nationality. We need to secure our borders in order to
get our home back in some sort of a normal state. My advice is not to take it
personally. It affects all of us.
My mother is a Jamaican, my husband is a Jamaican, my kids were born in Jamaica,
and I was born here. I have an axe to grind with criminals.
Can you tell me if Jamaica had a problem with any nationality – like Haitians –
you wouldn’t impose visas? The truth is that you would, and you have.
We need to clean up Cayman and make it safe from all criminals Jamaican,
Americans, English, Indian, Caymanian or Latinos. So we have to do what we have
to do regardless of how it looks.
Jamielynn
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