ONLINE FEEDBACK

Below are edited excerpts from comments posted by readers online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com reacting to yesterday's Page 3 story 'No Cuba-Jamaica rift, says Lewin'.

Poor gov't handing

Mr Hardley Lewin is a man of very high morals and integrity and has served his country very well. His statement on the matter has the support of the Police Officers Association and Senior Superintendent Michael James. This just highlights the incompetence within the present Bruce Golding-led administration.

It appears that some of the ministers appointed are dunce and inadequate. The People's National Party has a better spin machine in place. Bruce Golding should be ashamed of how his Government handles important, sensitive matters which are of national and international interest.

- Mystic_007

A rush to judgement

In the wake of the headline in The Gleaner of December 15, 'Jamaica soft on drugs - Cuba, most bloggers came with their comments bashing all Jamaican politicians, mainly Bruce Golding and Dwight Nelson. All of that bashing was based on information published by WikiLeaks, a suspected mischief-making website.

The Cuban ambassador has since denied the claims, and here comes former commissioner of police Hardley Lewin denying the claims. Are we now going to say they are both lying? Jamaican politicians do deserve a good bashing and/or expulsion for their wrongs, but we must think and measure before making scathing comments. Don't be like empty barrels that only make noise.

- Nichenry88

A time to be wise

Trevor Munroe had warned us about jumping to conclusion before determining that all that was being published was factual. Still, I don't believe we have all the related data, so I endorse the comments that condemn the mostly partisan bashing by the bloggers. Let's wise up.

- Fatherforesight

Not the website, but systems

This matter is not about what some website says, but rather a matter of how our systems work - which is corrupted and very slow. We have too many officials who are affiliated with dons and gangs; whose income stems from drug trafficking, and so there is little doubt in my mind that there is some truth behind all the reports.

Where and how did all these guns and drugs reach into the heart of Jamaica, which has no factory manufacturing such things?

- Ras Alonso