Dear Editor,
I note with interest, our President’s observation to the effect that more resources are needed to fight the drug/narco business.
Set aside the trade beyond our borders, a troubling aspect is its use locally. This is destroying families, causing killings, wasting young people, and generally being 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 qua 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 in the teens, a 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.
Yours faithfully,
Hamilton Green
