Frustration released

The editor, Sir:

Thank you, Ian Boyne, for your article in The Sunday Gleaner of May 30. It was well written, objective and expressed so much of what well-thinking Jamaicans (inside and out of Jamaica) are saying. I cried while reading the article - tears of joy - as it was like a release of so much pent-up frustration.

I left Jamaica in November 2000, as I got married in 1999 and my husband was living in Canada. I thought long and hard when my husband asked me if I would prefer to live in Jamaica or Canada, as he was willing to return to live in Jamaica (he is Jamaican). I probably would have opted to stay in Jamaica had I not been the victim of two traumatic experiences: one with a knife-wielding thief at South Parade on my way home from classes at the University of Technology, and the other with three gunmen in a churchyard - both robberies.

My emotional scars from these incidents were still raw; the rule of the gun and criminal elements were on the rise and so I chose to move to Canada.

I am, etc.,

Marlene Davids

Ontario, Canada