Dear Editor,
National Security Minister Peter Bunting's announcement that he's interested in providing the electorate's database with more than a million Jamaican citizens' private information to the police, and that only those with something to hide should be against such a decision is a major breach of trust.
It is also delusional to think that most law-abiding Jamaican citizens would agree with such a risky and potentially dangerous move.
I am a law-abiding, tax-paying citizen without even an outstanding traffic ticket. Yet, I am among those citizens who are totally, unequivocally, and vehemently against Bunting's proposition to hand over citizens' private information to the Jamaican police.
As we all know, there is far too much evidence of across-the-board corruption in this country for law-abiding citizens to support Minister Bunting's latest proposition. Also, far too many police officers are accused and charged with very serious criminal offences that serve to erode confidence in the police having access to any such information.
Minister Bunting's boss, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, should reprimand and discipline him for proposing such a backward and potentially dangerous move, since someone in his position ought to know that what he is contemplating will put law-abiding citizens' information at risk of being abused.
S Gayle
St Catherine
Someone is delusional and it's not me
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National Security Minister Peter Bunting's announcement that he's interested in providing the electorate's database with more than a million Jamaican citizens' private information to the police, and that only those with something to hide should be against such a decision is a major breach of trust.
It is also delusional to think that most law-abiding Jamaican citizens would agree with such a risky and potentially dangerous move.
I am a law-abiding, tax-paying citizen without even an outstanding traffic ticket. Yet, I am among those citizens who are totally, unequivocally, and vehemently against Bunting's proposition to hand over citizens' private information to the Jamaican police.
As we all know, there is far too much evidence of across-the-board corruption in this country for law-abiding citizens to support Minister Bunting's latest proposition. Also, far too many police officers are accused and charged with very serious criminal offences that serve to erode confidence in the police having access to any such information.
Minister Bunting's boss, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, should reprimand and discipline him for proposing such a backward and potentially dangerous move, since someone in his position ought to know that what he is contemplating will put law-abiding citizens' information at risk of being abused.
S Gayle
St Catherine
Someone is delusional and it's not me
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