Online feedback

Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Move them out' in which the police, parents and teachers advocated the removal of vendors from school gates.

Keep good vendors inside schools

You are heading in the right direction! But you can make it more simple by building an add-on to the school - make a cafeteria where the good vendors will have space to sell their stuff and keep the gates locked. The kids will have no choice but to eat what is available on the school compound, or they bring their lunch to school! Mind you, they will have to pay a fee to use the facility! This is the real solution to the problem!

Noshel

Do things in order

We do have to get things on the right track in Jamaica. It's full time we stop everybody from doing what they want to do; this is why we have so much problems with criminals who want to run our country as they feel like.

The police must take charge and enforce the law. There are other ways for people to make a living such as farming, rearing chickens, pigs, goats etc. If most of the Jamaican people do that, there is no way we will have hungry people in our island. The point is, most of the people living in Kingston and who don't have jobs need to go back to the rural parishes and do farming.

Why are they living in Kingston when they do not have a job or land to farm there? The Government should use some of the money they have borrowed to lend those persons who are willing to go back to the rural parishes to do farming. That would solve most of the problems we have in Jamaica.

Concerned Jamaican man

Poor attitude behind school vending

Repeatedly it is said, and it is true, about Jamaica: 'although things change, everything remain the same'.

This thing about 'give mi a food and, mi haafi mek a food' is a very low, and obscene attitude.

There are laws, rules and principles, as my grandma would say. Everybody wants to put up a little shack and hustle something 'fi eat a food' - in the street or anywhere they feel they can earn a bread.

One wonders about the cleanliness of the products being sold and the persons doing the selling; and, if you don't buy their goods, they curse you.

Clean up the little shacks, have people who are selling get the required permits including police background checks, and stop listening to this 'man-haafi-mek-a-food' sentiment.

THEDKJ