Frivolous court case

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I HAVE read in the newspaper that a gentleman has filed a lawsuit in the Florida courts against James Robertson, a minister of government in the present administration. That gentleman's lawyer must have misled him.

How can a man who lives in Jamaica file a criminal suit in a court in the United States claiming that his life was threatened by Mr Robertson, who also lives in Jamaica? The Florida lawyer should be barred or suspended for wasting the court's time in Florida. If the gentleman has any such claim or concern he should file it in the Jamaican court.

My belief in this matter is that he must have thought that if he filed it in a Florida court then, maybe, he would have been entitled to an asylum hearing, but the United States does not give asylum to a person who lives in a democracy on such flimsy grounds.

I am, etc.,

Desmond 'Milo' Bond

PO Box 431

Kingston 8