Dear Editor,

I NOTE with interest our President’s observation to the effect that more resources are needed to fight the drug/narco business.Besides the trade beyond our borders, a troubling aspect of the narco business is its use locally. This is destroying families, causing killings, the wasting of young people, and generally a big blight on the nation.

In addition, we need to put in place in every educational institution arrangements to keep our children — from pre-primary to university — very busy with sporting and cultural activities (dancing, games, music debates etc). In this way, they will have little idle time for drugs. They will learn from early to see their bodies as God’s gift, to be treasured and protected.

This, of course, is a monumental task, and work has started; but it should be made a sine quo non and discussed openly and be a nonpartisan matter. I just visited with some of my grandchildren; one spends three hours after school in the swimming pool. Another, not yet a teenager, spends similar time doing gymnastics training in addition to learning to play two musical instruments. We may not be able to match this sort of programme, but we must aim high to save the next and succeeding generations.

Can we do it? Yes, we can!
Regards,
HAMILTON GREEN