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Garrison more than label, it's reality

The problem is not the label 'garrison'. The problem is the circumstances in which the communities operate, where fear and intimidation are used for control. The leader of the Opposition needs to stop piddling around the edges and address the issue frontally.

- Free_B

Programmed for tribalism

Simpson Miller said there are no barriers in her constituency and it is accessible. Try sending a crash-test dummy around there in a green outfit and see what happens. The same thing would happen in a JLP constituency. These people on both sides are just programmed for tribalism.

- MB

Can't dodge truth

If you put lipstick on a pig, it don't change the fact that it is still a pig. Garrisons are garrisons, and they are absolutely bad for democracy and bad for Jamaica. Portia won't get it because she is part of the problem.

- Dwyane

Don't bury your head in the sand

Mrs Simpson Miller did not understand what the PM was saying. The garrisons exist. Let us not be like the ostrich. That has been our problem - refusing to face the truth. If we continue to do so, we will fail to correct the problems.

- Ezrafider

Meaningless symbolism

Mrs Simpson Miller and Mr Holness walking the streets for a day is just meaningless symbolism that is here today and gone tomorrow. Now if both candidates contesting the election in a constituency were seen walking the streets and campaigning together, greeting citizens together and answering questions posed by constituents together, then the leaders can cement that image of coexistence in the psyche of their followers by doing the same.

- Prommo

Unity walk crucial

A walk through the man-made prisons we now call garrisons should be done by each MP and his opponent as a symbol of unity that we want Jamaica to strive for. Portia totally missed the point. Not only are the barriers in these garrisons physical, they are mostly mental.

- JA Times