Reschedule debt payments

Jamaica cannot pay its debts. If it attempts to do so, the nation will continue to deteriorate seriously on all the basic levels. Do we not know that there is provision in the financial system for such a scenario as this?

Talk to the European countries about the Marshall Plan. Talk to Argentina, Russia and many other more prestigious countries and they will tell you of a time when they were in our situation. Why isn't anyone screaming?

We have no other credible option. The health of the nation demands this. I have no doubt that world opinion will be on Jamaica's side. Are the Jamaican creditors worried about some sacrifices for the nation?

Lou Petts

Mississauga, Ontario

Bless you, Mr PM

I read with appreciation the statements made by Prime Minister Bruce Golding that Parliament will not pass any law, under his watch, which would legitimise homosexual unions.

I heartily commend the Prime Minister for his forthrightness on this matter. I would simply ask that he uses his influence to have the constitution secure the protection of marriage as being between one man and one woman.

Also, that this protection be deeply entrenched in the constitution. In so doing, only a referendum could remove that protection of marriage as being between one man and one woman.

Mark Dawes

mark.dawes@yahoo.co.uk

Kingston 10

Well done, Bruce

My commendations to Prime Minister Golding for his courageous stance against same-sex unions. This arrangement was never in the Creator's plan for the human race.

All who accept the Bible as an owner's manual from He who made man and instituted marriage as a union between a man and a woman ought to hail Mr Golding's stance.

Milton S. Anderson

miltonanderson3@yahoo.com

Decatur, Georgia

Pastors should defend Buju

Given that Leviticus 20:13 says: "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads", why have the likes of the Rev Al Miller, Bishop Herro Blair or any of our Bible-toting Christian friends not yet told these gay rights people to leave Buju Banton alone?

Surely, they must think that the much-maligned 'Gargamel' was merely putting into music a message explicitly endorsed by the Holy Bible?

Why have they remained silent? Is it that they are afraid of the purveyors of power who are of a similar persuasion, or is it that many of the Church leaders have deserted their holy book and made affection with the homosexuals? Which is it? Our Christian religious affiliates should speak up.

Israel John

israel_john7@yahoo.com

Kingston