Esther Tyson — a class act
Dear Editor, Ardenne High School has benefited tremendously from the stewardship of Esther Tyson and she has been equally dynamic in her short stint at Tarrant High School. Some people are just class...
View ArticleStop majoring in the minors, JCF
Dear Editor, Yesterday, our neighbour had a confrontation with my nephew because a plant fell out of a container and caused dust/dirt -- according to the neighbour -- to get to her sheet which was on...
View ArticleI'm about to lose my house, Mama P
Dear Editor, According to Marcus Mosiah Garvey: "Education is the process by which man is prepared for their own particular civilisation and the advancement and glory of their own race." Jamaica seems...
View ArticleChange the name of the Office of the Public Defender
Dear Editor, The name Office of the Public Defender is a mistake. It is just not consistent with the international norms for such an office. For example, in the United States and Brazil, a public...
View ArticleThe paradox of not judging
Dear Editor, In the heated debate surrounding LGBTQ lifestyles one of the expressions I've come to increasingly detest is 'don't judge'. Implicit in that statement is a judgement on the act of judging,...
View ArticleFix school boards: Our education system deserves better
Dear Editor, A society is as great as the public education system which caters to the children of that society. The Jamaican education system, over the years, has gone through a process of...
View ArticleJa backstage the world's theatre
Dear Editor, Politics and economic development go together with political theatre and are as much symbolic as is actual economic reality. Vladimir Putin visited Central America and the Caribbean with a...
View ArticleCut the misconceptions about slavery
Dear Editor, It is very disturbing that whenever we celebrate Emancipation the fictitious stories that are told by many of our historians are taken as factual by many of us. In particular, this very...
View ArticleBRICS could create a new world order
Dear Editor, The International Economic Order is seriously shaking up and getting ready for a complete overhaul. The signs of this became apparent this week when the world's leading emerging markets...
View ArticleDr Fenton Ferguson cannot manage health sector
Dear Editor, In a state of utter shock, I saw Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson on TV during a tour of Bellevue Hospital defending his stewardship of the public health sector. He boasted of attending...
View ArticleWant more than lip service from Seiveright task force
Dear Editor, I am delighted to see that for the first in a long time a group of intelligent people are not only concerned about the neglect and underdevelopment that is the parish of St Thomas today,...
View ArticleDid Mayor Brown Burke misspeak?
Dear Editor, Last Wednesday, July 9, 2014, on TVJ's nightly news I heard the Mayor of Kingston and St Andrew Angela Brown Burke addressing the issue of unpaid property taxes. She said that, according...
View ArticleFor the sake of history
Dear Editor, IN reference to your Memories of Jamaica article by Donna Hussey-Whyte in the Observer of July 16, 2014, entitled 'Rosa Linton remembers when women could not vote', there are a couple of...
View ArticleThe death of the youth club movement
Dear Editor, Some time ago I wrote on the youth club movement losing its influence, but it now seems that apart from the police youth clubs, SDC (Social Development Commission) clubs are nowhere to be...
View ArticleNWC to be blamed again
Dear Editor, The rotten egg smell emanating from the gully that runs between Wellington Drive and Wellington Glades in the Liguanea area has become unbearable and it is downright wickedness perpetrated...
View ArticleOur apathy has caused our parlous state
Dear Editor, Transformational leadership has become a rather popular topic these days, but we often ignore the importance of effective followership in determining the quality of a leader. Jamaica is a...
View ArticleReally, PM, you don't know hunger
Dear Editor, While watching the local news broadcast recently I was quite disheartened to hear our dear prime minister's remarks at a political rally about hunger. Surely, I must have heard wrong so I...
View ArticleI stand by my statement, Observer
Dear Editor, This letter is response to the editorial that appeared in the July 15, 2014 edition of the Observer newspaper titled 'Stop fulminating and promote Investment', which provided an inaccurate...
View ArticleIf we are to see success...
Dear Editor, Every generation has a picture of success and that picture causes us to behave in particular ways and do particular things. The generation born in the late 60s and early 70s has not done...
View ArticleWanted: Male Nurse of the Year
Dear Editor, Nursing, like all other professions of a nurturing nature, continues to be female-dominated. According to the US Census Bureau, less than 10 per cent of American registered nurses (RNs)...
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