WHETHER AN ARTICLE is written by a former editor or not, it should not pass with blatant inaccuracies.

Robert Best's piece on The Bajan Experience states: "In Jamaica, for example, the crime rate is high, but it is only when visitors are the victims that greater concern than usual is expressed."

This is just bunkum, as a simple, cursory read of both major Jamaican papers online would show, as would a few minutes watching the evening news or listening to radio broadcasts from Jamaica.

In any event, if it were meant as a criticism, one could just substitute "Barbados" for Jamaica, with a flurry of activity to deal with problems at Long Beach after a savage attack on a Canadian visitor, when the crime problems there have been known for decades (not my observation, but that of people who have lived here for many years).

It does not further a cause to misrepresent its counterpart.

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- DENNIS JONES,

Economist