Dear Editor,
There is now an overwhelming need to address our international image, and in so doing, we must protect this country's reputation from racist slanderers who are portraying a negative profile of our people and country.
Granted, there might be individuals here who have participated in lottery scams. But it was neither invented nor perfected on the island. The remarks being made by foreign interests abroad and those locally are irresponsible, misleading, and slanderous and set the stage for further discrimination and injustice against Jamaicans.
It has been said that US$300 million is brought to this economy annually from such frauds; a figure that simple mathematics reveals is a deliberate misrepresentation of reality.
"Out of many, one people", is the national motto, not "punish many people because of one". That is the vigilante attitude being foisted on our brothers and sisters. This must not continue!
To shoot first then ask questions later is the ideology of a reckless society, which we shall be guilty of by enacting rash statutes disguised as law to appease foreign interests. The so-called victims accepting winnings for sweepstakes or lotteries they did not enter are also committing fraud. Stop using our brothers and sisters as scapegoats.
Michael Diamond
consumersinterventionjamaica@gmail.com
All J'cans aren't crooks!
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There is now an overwhelming need to address our international image, and in so doing, we must protect this country's reputation from racist slanderers who are portraying a negative profile of our people and country.
Granted, there might be individuals here who have participated in lottery scams. But it was neither invented nor perfected on the island. The remarks being made by foreign interests abroad and those locally are irresponsible, misleading, and slanderous and set the stage for further discrimination and injustice against Jamaicans.
It has been said that US$300 million is brought to this economy annually from such frauds; a figure that simple mathematics reveals is a deliberate misrepresentation of reality.
"Out of many, one people", is the national motto, not "punish many people because of one". That is the vigilante attitude being foisted on our brothers and sisters. This must not continue!
To shoot first then ask questions later is the ideology of a reckless society, which we shall be guilty of by enacting rash statutes disguised as law to appease foreign interests. The so-called victims accepting winnings for sweepstakes or lotteries they did not enter are also committing fraud. Stop using our brothers and sisters as scapegoats.
Michael Diamond
consumersinterventionjamaica@gmail.com
All J'cans aren't crooks!
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