Dental law languishing
Dear Editor, I write on behalf of the entire dental profession to express our grave concern with respect to the current state of legislation concerning our profession. The Dental Act which now governs...
View ArticleThe American people have spoken
Dear Editor, President Obama's re-election could not have had a touch of divine intervention or any reference to Hurricane Sandy. I am no theologian or pollster. My assumption is based on the...
View ArticleWhat winning means for Obama
Dear Editor, The recent US elections dealt a blow to the momentum of right-wing conservative extremists and the Tea Party Movement. The results were even more significant, considering Republicans...
View ArticleWhere is Kyla?
Dear Editor, I live in the UK and I am trying to find the whereabouts of a family member. He is Kyla Wellesley-Johnson and our family recently heard from a relative in the USA that Kyla is in Jamaica....
View ArticleUS nowhere near racism-free!
Dear Editor, This refers the letter "US may well become classless, racism-free", in the Jamaica Observer of November 13, 2012. The US is far from becoming "racism-free". Ninety-five per cent of blacks...
View ArticleNo need for a Cabinet reshuffle
Dear Editor, In 2008 the people of the United States elected Barack Obama to be president. It was not because he is black and handsome. They clearly believed that he could get the job done, end an...
View ArticleUS elections — time for one man, one vote
Dear Editor, At last the elections are over in the USA. The results are accepted by the losers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. President Obama has four more years in the White House. But the elections did...
View ArticleOh, to have Air Jamaica again!
Dear Editor, It is hard to fully express my sentiments about Air Jamaica. While occasionally there are signs that its total demise is perhaps premature, we who learned to love that beautiful airline...
View ArticleThe heat is on for safe toys!
Dear Editor, European Union member states have approved new security measures for toys. These will prohibit poisonous substances and limit the use of heavy alloy. With this regulation, chemical...
View ArticleMost black scientists are products of Western culture
Dear Editor, I must admit that while reviewing several lists of black inventors, I became a little disturbed. I have always heard that the claim that there is no science in the black man is just a myth...
View ArticleJamaicans need to vote wisely
Dear Editor, The recent American presidential elections provided us with a great opportunity to learn an invaluable lesson, but the question is: Did we learn it? In December 2011, Jamaicans, by virtue...
View ArticleRacism rears its ugly head in America
Dear Editor, As one who lived for a while in the United States when racism was overt, dangerous and widely acceptable, I have never been overcome by the romantic notion that racism had ever died out...
View ArticleA victory for humanity
Dear Editor, It is very pleasing to know that President Barack Obama was re-elected to continue for the next four years as the political head of the most powerful country in the world. Considering all...
View ArticleTime for the US to end the embargo on Cuba
Dear Editor, Nothing appears more anachronistic and incomprehensible than the US embargo against Cuba. First imposed on the island in October 1960 by the Eisenhower administration, it reflected the...
View ArticleBrother Barack, do the right thing!
Dear Editor, Last Tuesday was another occasion that the member states of the United Nations voted to condemn the blockade against our sister nation, Cuba, imposed by the United States for 50 years. In...
View ArticleHow we could help Jamaica
Dear Editor, The Jamaica Baptist Union recently developed a plan to assist Haiti. Individual members of different churches within the JBU made a commitment to plant one banana sucker, nurture it,...
View ArticlePatterson's achievements
Dear Editor, Long after all political rhetoric has ended, the name PJ Patterson will stand tall. A revered Queen's Counsel and nation builder with a legendary memory, more solid and circumspect than...
View ArticleThanks, Jamaica Observer
Dear Editor, Thank you so much for your help, Jamaica Observer, in publishing our letter on November 15 to find our relative, Kyla Wellesley-Johnson. Kyla's sister contacted us, following publication....
View ArticleImprove human rights in Sri Lanka
Dear Editor, This is an open letter to the Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma We write once again to bring your attention to the disturbing state of human rights in Sri Lanka and the grave...
View ArticleWants to help rape victims
Dear Editor, Where did all the noise surrounding the upsurge of rapes and other types of violence against women and children go? Was it just a nine-day wonder as we are accustomed to in Jamaica after...
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