Dear Editor,
The call to change the Jamaican coat of arms by Bishop Rowan Edwards is preposterous, absurd, and unwarranted in every respect, and is concomitantly a significant indictment on the clergyman.
I was extremely flabbergasted when I saw the garrulous Bishop Edwards on a
CVM-TV evening newscast stating that it is prime time for there to be a change in the country’s present coat of arms. It is ludicrous and puerile for Edwards to be intimating that the presence of the bow in the hands of the Tainos, as depicted in the Jamaican court of arms, represents violence. Absolute rubbish coming from Bishop Edwards, a senior member of the clergy.
There is certainly nothing wrong with the present coat of arms, and it is shameful that Bishop Edwards should be criticising the coat of arms when there are a plethora of serious national and governmental issues, including crime, negatively affecting this country.
What constructive and workable solutions does the clergyman have to offer to the Government regarding reducing the country’s murder rate? Is Bishop Edwards’ church involved in any skills and educational training within any inner city community or in the nation’s prisons/correctional facilities? What is Bishop Edwards’ opinion on the high drug abuse problems across Jamaica, the escalating child abuse rate throughout the country?
Bishop Edwards should instead be vociferously speaking out about the massive decline in morals across the country and should be concerned about the filthy songs which are being played on radio and in entertainment complexes across the island. Why isn’t Edwards speaking about the need for constitutional reform in Jamaica? Why isn’t he concerned about the high poverty and unemployment rate within Jamaica?
I am most disappointed in Bishop Edwards’ frivolous comments and urge him to uplift his overall intellectual thinking to a much higher, constructive level.
Generally speaking, sometimes I really wonder about the low-level thinking which comes from some of our clergymen in this country. No wonder many Jamaicans view our churches as useless and not having any meaningful impact and effect on the Jamaican society.
Robert Dalley, Esq
St James
robertdalley1@hotmail.com
The call to change the Jamaican coat of arms by Bishop Rowan Edwards is preposterous, absurd, and unwarranted in every respect, and is concomitantly a significant indictment on the clergyman.
I was extremely flabbergasted when I saw the garrulous Bishop Edwards on a
CVM-TV evening newscast stating that it is prime time for there to be a change in the country’s present coat of arms. It is ludicrous and puerile for Edwards to be intimating that the presence of the bow in the hands of the Tainos, as depicted in the Jamaican court of arms, represents violence. Absolute rubbish coming from Bishop Edwards, a senior member of the clergy.
There is certainly nothing wrong with the present coat of arms, and it is shameful that Bishop Edwards should be criticising the coat of arms when there are a plethora of serious national and governmental issues, including crime, negatively affecting this country.
What constructive and workable solutions does the clergyman have to offer to the Government regarding reducing the country’s murder rate? Is Bishop Edwards’ church involved in any skills and educational training within any inner city community or in the nation’s prisons/correctional facilities? What is Bishop Edwards’ opinion on the high drug abuse problems across Jamaica, the escalating child abuse rate throughout the country?
Bishop Edwards should instead be vociferously speaking out about the massive decline in morals across the country and should be concerned about the filthy songs which are being played on radio and in entertainment complexes across the island. Why isn’t Edwards speaking about the need for constitutional reform in Jamaica? Why isn’t he concerned about the high poverty and unemployment rate within Jamaica?
I am most disappointed in Bishop Edwards’ frivolous comments and urge him to uplift his overall intellectual thinking to a much higher, constructive level.
Generally speaking, sometimes I really wonder about the low-level thinking which comes from some of our clergymen in this country. No wonder many Jamaicans view our churches as useless and not having any meaningful impact and effect on the Jamaican society.
Robert Dalley, Esq
St James
robertdalley1@hotmail.com