An agenda far removed from justice

The Editor, Sir:

It was refreshing to read Ashford Meikle's article (CCJ, a Trojan horse? Public Affairs, December 26) concerning the captioned subject. This gentleman, a law student whose mind has not been corrupted, has a better grasp of the importance of our final court of appeal issue than all the learned gentlemen who are pressing for localising the court. Talk about Caribbean jurisprudence!

Well, I am not a murderer, nor am I wealthy, but maybe I have a colonial mentality. After all, colonialism is the very reason for our existence ... we all would not have been here had it not been for colonialism. We have been mis-educated by half-baked intellectuals masquerading as thinkers and, as a result, the popular view of colonialism is that we were here peacefully enjoying our black-man country and some wicked white colonialist came and enslaved us!

a bad thing

Utter rubbish! Slavery was indeed a bad thing, but none of us is the worst for it. The persons who were actual slaves did suffer, but their descendants, us, are by and large better off than the descendants of most of those Africans who remained free in Africa. Mental slavery is what we are now suffering from!

The Caymanians have a colonialist mentality and they are a damned sight better off for it.

Jamaicans wake up! look at the words of Patrick Robinson and Seymour Panton, all senior jurists! Do they give you comfort that we are heading in the right direction? Or do they have an agenda, far removed from justice for you and me.

Mr Meikle, maybe you should consider another profession before it's too late!

I am, etc.,

CARLTON REYNOLDS

Kingston