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Thursday, 03 August 2006 |
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Affordable housing Dear Sir: I must write to you appealing for help from the community and the community leaders for help is find houses or apartments to rent that the average person can afford. I was living in an apartment in Margate, but was forced to leave since they changed it into condominiums which they are now selling. My family and I were supposed to move over two months ago, and we are pressured to do so as the apartment has been sold, but I cannot find any place for me and my family of five to live. Two bedrooms are being rented for over a $1,000 and three bedrooms fro over $ 1,200. I just cannot afford this rent. I would like any of your readers to let us know, through, your paper, if they know of any reasonable, decent apartments, preferably three bedrooms, being rented in Broward County for around $1,000 per month. Thanks for publishing this. Granville Simms, Margate |
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Tuesday, 25 July 2006 |
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Diplomats must get involved Sir, I must commend your writer Professor David Rowe for his comments encouraging the Jamaican Consul General to take steps to get involved with the Broward Sheriff Office, and see what is happening with Caribbean youth when they are arrested and are involved in the Broward court system. This should apply to the Miami-Dade court system as well. Too many times black youth from the Caribbean are treated without any respect by law enforcement officers in all of Florida, but especially in Broward and Miami-Dade. Not only the Jamaican consular general, but all those diplomats who represent the Caribbean countries here in Florida, must make sure that they understand the working of the system, make themselves known to law enforcement and be better able to represent the many youth who get caught up in the system. Donovan Pearce, Miami |
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Monday, 17 July 2006 |
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Bring back summer schools Dear Sir: I am writing to this newspaper as I want the school authorities across Florida, especially in Broward County, to bring back summer schools. When they existed they served a useful purpose. They helped children with failing grades, and they were very useful in keeping children occupied while on holidays. Two of my children, in Middle school in Broward barely made a D average last school year. Both have problems in mathematics, and as I never passed math in high school I can hardly help them. I have been trying to get a tutor to help them, but I cannot find anyone. This would be so much easier if the schools, like what happened a few years ago, held summer classes to help children who had weak grades. I don’t understand the argument that the school board cannot afford to the cost of summer classes. We are paying a lot of taxes so why can’t this be used to finance the summer classes. Or, if it comes to the worse then the school board could ask parents to pay a small fee for summer classes. |
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Wednesday, 28 June 2006 |
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Implement Gun Controls
Dear Sir: We’re so glad to see you addressed the problems of the many deaths, especially our young people, by the gun in Miami. My family recently relocated to Miami from Boston, and we are amazed by the lack of gun control here. In Boston, any one found with an unlicensed gun, or without a permit for that gun was jost likely to face a one-year mandatory prison sentence. We cannot recall any exceptions to this law. This law was very effective in controlling gun-crimes as such crimes were reduced by over 30 percent last year. Miami needs such a law. We are sure a law like that coupled with sporadic late-night road blocks, where cars are searched, will find hundreds of unlicensed guns and carriers of guns, who must be locked up. Only by taking such strong measures will gun crimes begin to decline. Albert & Marcia Mullins, Miami Gardens |
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