Dear Editor,

I refer to Faye Jacob's letter of May 1, "Embassies mustn't treat us like goats in a pasture".

The US Embassy in Toronto offers none of the comfort and amenities which you are demanding from the US Embassy in Kingston. No free parking and no protection from the elements. If your appointment is on a very cold day (-15C), you had better dress warm and expect to stand in line outside, without any protection from the snow until the Embassy opens. Canadians of every ethnicity and economic standing have to stand in line and wait until the Embassy opens.

This is how the US Embassy operates worldwide. It has nothing to do with your being Jamaican. In fact, if they have accommodated visa seekers in any way possible before they enter the Embassy building, then that is superior service to that in Canada, where you would have to stand on the sidewalk and ever so often move out of the way to allow pedestrians to pass by.

If people at US Embassies are treated like goats, then in Jamaica they are well protected and fed.

Howard Rennis
h_rennis@yahoo.com

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