Dear Sir:

Looks like you guys are trying to protect one promoter and mash down another one. You claim that it is a shame and disgrace for another promoter to promote a Jamaican Jerk Festival. But, hello, the promotion business is a rough business. The title Jamaican Jerk Festival wasn’t copy righted. So it belongs to anyone. It’s tough that another promoter use the same promotion-name that another promoter used before, but that’s no shame and disgrace. Show promotion is a business, and every promoter has to use the best means to pull the crowd to make money in the business.

If a promoter doesn’t want another promoter to use his promotional name, he must make sure to protect it by copyrighting that name. This is America boss. Although things seem unfair, things happen. If a promoter can’t protect himself, a man going to take advantage of his promotion. It’s no shame and disgrace; it’s just business.

Ralph Holy. Lake Worth

Several months ago we wrote an editorial decrying the rampant use of the gun in our community. We have to address this again, as we see gun crime escalating in Miami-Dade County over recent weeks. People in the community are concerned about the rash of gun-slayings, especially as many young people have been killed. 

An aspiring young man, just seventeen years old, just about to graduate from high school with a 5.0 GPA was gunned down because of a foolish argument about competing cars. A young lady was killed the day following her graduation - gunned down in drive by killing. Another young man, stepped out of is house to meet a friend and was mysteriously gunned down in the streets in Northwest Miami-Dade.

Again we appeal to the authorities to turn their attention to serious gun controls. It is just too easy for people, especially young people to get guns. Long gone are the days when people settled arguments via a fistfight. In these latter days, it is the bark of a gun that indicates who wins the argument, or who gets whatever one wants to get. This correlation between gun crimes and the youth of our community must be broken.

Dear Sir:

I agree with you that parents are being careless in giving their young teenagers cars.

You see sir, many parents are not giving the kids cars as a means of convenience, to assist them in getting to school, etc., but really to impress their neighbors. I have heard so many parents boast that they gave young Johnny or Betty a car for their birthday. The problem is that Johnny and Betty had just reached 16, and hardly had any driving experience.

The chances are high that sooner or later these children are going to get into an accident. Then, another matter is that since these teenagers get these cars so easily, they hardly having any sense of responsibility where the cars I concerned. They will drive as fast as possible, because if it is wrecked the parents will buy another.

No, if you are going to give a child a car, let that child earn it. Wait at least until the child graduate from high school with a high GPA. The child will be more mature, responsible, and appreciative and jost likely less likely to drive irresponsibly and risk his life and that of others.

This editorial is being dedicated to the youth in our community. Over the past few days several colleges and high schools in Florida held gradation ceremonies. To many who graduated these now high-ended productions seem to make them dizzy with the realization of the moment. As we heard one high school graduate shout to his peers as he tossed his graduation cap onto the air, “Wowie, me a man now. Look at me, I am stepping.”

We fully understand the sense of euphoria that this young man, and others feel, at coming to the end of their high school journey. We too felt that euphoria for what seems like several lifetimes ago. But we want to caution him, and all the other graduates, that while we offer our congratulations on a achieving a very important milestone, this is only the beginning of a very important journey. Indeed, life promises you, the youth, a series of graduations, for which you must be prepared.

Whether you are graduating from high school, or college, there is a whole long life ahead. In this real world the certificates, diplomas or degrees you received this past week are not passports to success. These are just a few of the many instruments that you need to make life successful.

Dear Sir:

We have a problem with you blasting the murder of a Caribbean minister of government on the front pages of your paper. Although we from the Caribbean know that crime is a problem in the region, we should not be exposing this to the rest of the world. No, we should not be hanging our dirty laundry in public.

I am not saying you should hide the fact that crime is taking place in the Caribbean, nut what papers like your need to do is to publish article that will help to alleviate the problem of crime, and find realistic means of counteracting this plague on the Caribbean society. Mr. Editor, for years the mainstream newspapers has been giving the Caribbean bad press. We hope you don’t join in this. I think news like this could be published, but not given so much prominence.

Dawn Sinclair,

Parkland.