SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDBACK

This is feedback to the story ‘The Bench prevails – Judges to get their money by month end; $16m new yearly salary for chief justice (Wednesday, June 21).

What are these judges getting paid for? Every person who has money and breaks the law walks free. All of them need to be sent home. – Del Brown

What about all those people who haven’t been paid for months? They don’t have money for lawyers to fight for their rights. Government is always rubbing salt in people’s wounds. – Katty Lee

Teachers, firemen, police, nurses and garbage collectors have to strike for the smallest of increases. Such persons’ annual salary is a shame to mention. – Kaydian Batchan

They deserve it. People should look at the system itself with so little judges and more crimes. How do you expect the turnover rate to be better when the work laid has been increased exponentially? Tell the Government to appoint more judges to expedite the justice system. They don’t want to cuz they don’t want to pay. Then the ordinary citizen suffers. – Dain Reid

The judges are an integral part of the criminal justice system. They have to be paid properly. – Everton S. Jackson

While other rich countries are cutting back on public-sector increases, the Jamaican Government is paying out millions to judges. This is at the same time that communities have no water, poor roads, and no light. – Alvin McLean

Pay the people them. Government love hold on to people’s money too much. – Rochelle Watson

Look at the number of cases that are awaiting trial. What are they getting paid for? – Eitak Yrheh

They all think it is easy to be a judge! They must be paid! – Marcia Parkinson

Some of these judges yah wicked, especially in lawsuit claims. – Valda Thomas

I hope they are doing a great job sending criminals to prison. – Velma Dixon

What a whole heap a money unuh a get an nuh a leg go di criminal dem! Unuh nuh spend unuh money at all. Unuh just a get rich off a poor people. Unuh wicked bad. – Isabella Ava