Dear Editor,

What is the purpose of life in Jamaica? Between life and material things, which is more important or should be more important?

Haven’t we heard this statement more than once: “Life is more precious than silver and gold”? And I will add to it: It’s more precious than anything in this world.

But, it doesn’t seem so in Jamaica where people continue to die like flies in crime and violence, domestic disputes, and road crashes. They are dying so easily, so untimely and so brutally, like animals.

Can you imagine that a so-called man beat a 25-year-old woman to death with a piece of board and threw her body in a pit, like she is an unwanted animal, and is given only three years in prison?

The 97-year-old veteran journalist and political commentator, the great and intelligent Peter Abrahams, being beaten to death and the killer is given only seven years in prison.

Whey dem a duh inna prison? Dem jus a nyam out taxpayers’ money.

Life is very cheap in Jamaica and the justice system is getting more rotten each year. No wonder the barefaced criminals are taking it for granted to kill us at will.

Donald J Mckoy