Signs of angelsFebruary 14, 2011Dear Sir,Today, people spend more time working, travelling, socializing, dashing from home to work and back again. In doing so, we often neglect to stop and reflect on life and on our own physical, and (perhaps forgotten) spiritual needs. You don't need to be spiritual or to make a drastic lifestyle change, because I know people can contact angels and benefit from their help and guidance without changing their lifestyle or abandoning their beliefs, logic, or common sense. The angels I'm talking about are angels in earthly form.A total stranger may turn up, resolve a situation and then disappear. This may be your earthly angel. How many times have you been in a tricky situation and thanked your lucky stars for the stranger who was passing and happened to be able to help? Some people think of other worldly dimensions as somewhere high in the sky or beyond the farthest imaginable galaxy.The experiences from angels have given me unmistakable signs of their presence. People who have studied angels have discovered there are certain ways in which angels make their presence felt. I have one family of three, a father and two sons who are in my school of martial arts; also their mother is a special mother. To know this family, they are angels of relations.SENSEI BURNELLPembrokeWe could use the seaweedFebruary 20, 2011Dear Sir,Another one of my suggestions that could make finance for our country. All this Sargasso seaweed that arrives around our shores during certain months of the calendar year could be made into fertiliser or used in pharmaceutical purposes as it has iodine in it, that I know. If a study could be made into this maybe Bermuda would be the envy of the world. It would provide jobs for us in certain months of the year, it would clean up our lovely beaches and shorelines. This seaweed could be baled as has been used recently in the garbage movement such as from our Tynes Bay to Morgan's Point storage area. Two to three of these large bales would fill up a 20-foot container. Instead of containers leaving Bermuda empty they could leave Bermuda full. I remember my by gone days when I would collect the seaweed in buckets, take it home, and place it around my banana trees, it's a wonderful fertiliser. I am sure there are countries around our world that would be more than happy to receive this sargasso seaweed.PETER BROMBY Sr.PagetEnforce stiffer jail termsFebruary 18, 2011Dear Sir,Here we go again. Evidence of the fact, that a prison sentence handed down to certain individuals who have attitudes are “no problem” (and of course, “no deterrent either”. ) If you want to know how a 20-year-old nonchalantly accepts an 18-month prison sentence, (even after being labelled a habitual thief) this is how.After violating a previous suspended jail term (this individual was before the Courts on December 11, 2009 charged with robbery. He had received an 18-month suspended sentence along with three years probation.), on February 2, he was fined $500 for stealing an iPod from the mother of a so called friend. His term of 18 months probation was extended another two years for that offence. He was then arrested on February 12 for stealing a BlackBerry phone from someone who'd offered him a lift.Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner activated the 18-month sentence for the December robbery and added three months for stealing the BlackBerry but get this. The sentences are to run concurrently. The courts need to enforce stiffer jail terms, especially on habitual criminals. (Like baseball, three strikes and you're out!)RAYMOND RAYSt. George's