Dear Editor,
When a member of the security forces is killed, all decent, law-abiding citizens are saddened. We may criticise the police for engaging in suspicious killings, but that doesn't negate our concerns when persons who put their lives on the line to protect and serve us are killed.
At the same time, we grieve just the same when hundreds of ordinary Jamaicans going about their daily activities are killed annually. They are our mothers, brothers, sisters, cousins, friends, or foes. They, too, have the right to live.
Lady Allen, wife of Governor General Sir Patrick Allen, confessed that she had an impulse to migrate after learning of the murder of 40-year-old Detective Sergeant Courtney Anthony Simpson. He once served as a bodyguard at King's House and she knew him.
Her initial reaction to this horrible murder is understandable. However, there needs to be an unwritten rule, a sort of moral contract, that precludes leaders of this country from even thinking of abandoning us in any circumstance.
We also need to modify the vision that Jamaica must become a place to live, work, raise our families and do business, to include grow old and die.
Mark Clarke
Siloah, St Elizabeth
mark_clarke9@yahoo.com
Leaders shouldn't think of abandoning Ja
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When a member of the security forces is killed, all decent, law-abiding citizens are saddened. We may criticise the police for engaging in suspicious killings, but that doesn't negate our concerns when persons who put their lives on the line to protect and serve us are killed.
At the same time, we grieve just the same when hundreds of ordinary Jamaicans going about their daily activities are killed annually. They are our mothers, brothers, sisters, cousins, friends, or foes. They, too, have the right to live.
Lady Allen, wife of Governor General Sir Patrick Allen, confessed that she had an impulse to migrate after learning of the murder of 40-year-old Detective Sergeant Courtney Anthony Simpson. He once served as a bodyguard at King's House and she knew him.
Her initial reaction to this horrible murder is understandable. However, there needs to be an unwritten rule, a sort of moral contract, that precludes leaders of this country from even thinking of abandoning us in any circumstance.
We also need to modify the vision that Jamaica must become a place to live, work, raise our families and do business, to include grow old and die.
Mark Clarke
Siloah, St Elizabeth
mark_clarke9@yahoo.com
Leaders shouldn't think of abandoning Ja
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