Online feedback

Below are excerpts from comments posted by online readers in reaction to yesterday's story on Contractor General Greg Christie's call for corruption to be tackled from the top.

• Is there something to hide?

Greg Christie certainly does have a vision and it is one worth looking into. I have taken many things from this article, one of which is it was "a repeat of a suggestion he has already made to Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Opposition leader Portia Simpson Miller." Are the leaders of Jamaica avoiding anti-corruption legislation? Why would they do that? Is there something to hide?

Let's be real for a second and realise that certain corruption will always be around. If I am in Jamaica on vacation and get pulled over by police for some minor infraction on the road, the police may choose to give me a ticket, even if one was not warranted, or on the flip side to that I could get off scot-free if I "slip dem a ting or just gi dem mi numba fi a future link". No one will be able to stop small-scale corruption like that.

Corruption and politics do go hand in hand. If I can help you and you can help me, then there will always be kickback politics. If anything, what this should do is, hopefully, minimise the amount of corruption Jamaica already has, and that would be wonderful.

- M. P. Ricardo

• Right on point

Greg Christie's observations, arguments and proposals are right on point. His dedication, assessment and tenacity are priceless and very much needed medicine for Jamaica.

My concern, however, is how we could go about implementing his proposed changes. Perhaps the brilliant legal minds at large could comb through the law books.

There must be some even archaic but still standing laws that are on the books, applicable to this situation, that could be used to bypass the anticipated derail by the ones who are supposed to be working for Jamaica, but whose sole endeavour is to help themselves and hinder Jamaica.

- Grace