I WANT to reach out to the Jamaican Government. This is a humble appeal. We need to address the issue of national security. Without security there will be no progress. Everything will be in limbo for an indefinite period of time. Creativity, production and progress will be on hold.

I will offer the following paragraph taken from an opinion piece written by Peter Bergen, national security analyst at CNN:

"It (security) has been a staple of Western political theory since the mid-17th century, when Hobbes wrote Leviathan, that if the state does not provide security to its people, life will be "nasty, brutish and short". Hobbes wrote Leviathan in the shadow of the English Civil War, deriving from that bloody conflict the idea that the most important political good the state can deliver is security.

Mr Golding, over to you.

I am, etc.,

Garth Denton

pugs53@verizon.net

USA