Online feedback

Below are edited excerpts from readers comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com reacting to yesterday's lead story 'Beastly bust - J'can, US lawmen bring down international drug ring'.

What about gun trade?

Now, if only the US government would care enough to help its less able neighbour, Jamaica, and stop the flow of guns into Jamaica. It should not be a one-way street where Jamaica should worry about drugs getting into the US, whereas no one in the US cares that so many Jamaicans are being slaughtered by weapons arriving in Jamaica.

They are not manufactured in Jamaica. Where are they coming from? How are they getting in? How many more Jamaicans have to die?

- Anna Williams

A morale booster

This bust could not come at a better time for the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), and not to mention what an immense morale booster it must be. Alas! A new era approach to crime fighting, criminals join forces internationally and so law enforcers bond globally too.

Still, what the Cubans stated was what many Jamaican still believe, so even with this new fame the haunting past will never go away, when both political parties seemed to turn their faces the other way while drugs lords brought in narcotics, guns and even criminals who are citizens from other countries to destroy the people and tarnish the reputation of a once-strong and proud nation. When it is all written in the history books, I hope the words will be as harsh on each of them as the period was for the people. I will always support the JCF. Thank you.

- Maude Cooper

US trying to aid GOJ

This is just the US government attempting to soften the embarrassing leak of confidential cables. While the US government is unhappy with the Government of Jamaica, it does not want to destabilise the country, therefore, the sudden congratulations for recent cooperation.

Note carefully the timeline of the cable. When Golding refused to extradite Coke, he was given an ultimatum. His assault on Tivoli Gardens was a message to the inhabitants of TG, but more so to the US government. He was saying that he got the message.

Cooperation between the US and the GOJ would not have materialised without this ultimatum, and Jamaica would now be floundering in absolute anarchy without support from the International Monetary Fund, IDB and World Bank.

- Mojo6411