Is JCF lock-up policy really in practice?
Dear Editor, Permit me to emphasise the general need for effective execution of our well-written policies. Based on the Revised Lock-Up Administration Policy, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is...
View ArticleHow hath the 'Fighting Irish' fallen!
Dear Editor, I couldn't help but give a healthy dose of laughter at the Clovis cartoon in last week Thursday's edition (December 11, 20140), depicting CEO of Digicel, Colm Delves, knocked out cold on...
View ArticleWhy is columnist Gordon Robinson so thin-skinned?
Dear Editor, Gordon Robinson used my guest column in the Jamaica Observer of September 3, 2014 to award the newspaper his local "Domino Dunce Award for Journalism". I don't know whether to laugh or...
View ArticleCongrats Observer Business Leader 2013 — Small entrepreneurs need right...
Dear Editor, Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Burrowes on winning the Jamaica Observer Business Leader Award 2013. I have to admit my bias, in that I am particularly proud because they are from the west....
View ArticleDo the people we elect know anything about managing a country?
Dear Editor, I have faith in only a handful of politicians, especially in this country. I know the howls of protest and condemnation will come when I say that Jamaica longs for the days before 1962....
View ArticleMuzzle Lambert Brown, PM
Dear Editor, I note with much displeasure the audacity of the unelected Lambert Brown, who sits in Parliament at the pleasure of the prime minister, to suggest a ban on protesting civil society members...
View ArticleGood job, Observer team
Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate Moses Jackson and the Jamaica Observer Business Leader Award team. I agree with the statements made by Mark Wignall in his column titled 'Encouraging signs in the...
View ArticleWith Cuba/US relations on the mend, our tourism sector needs to be...
Dear Editor, Yesterday President Barack Obama announced the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba. He declared an end to America's "outdated approach" to the 'communist' island in a...
View ArticleIntelligence in voting
Dear Editor, Writer Robert Mitchell's letter to the editor in the Daily Observer of December 16, 2014, titled 'Benefits and loyalty determines Jamaican votes, not education', is a perfect example of...
View ArticleTufton's return good for Ja's political future
Dear Editor, I write this letter in response to Chris Burns' article in The Agenda of Sunday Observer December 14, 2014, entitled 'The inevitability of Tufton's return to the JLP'. In that article,...
View ArticleGood news about Cuba — our long-standing friend
Dear Editor, Global Watch Jamaica welcomes the news that United States President Barack Obama has announced the intent to re-establish of diplomatic ties with our neighbours Cuba. Isolation has not...
View ArticleLook out, Cuba is coming!
Dear Editor, On Wednesday, December 17, 2014, the United States and Cuba had a landmark moment in their relationship. The US president ordered that the process begins to normalise relations between the...
View Article#parishcouncilsleftbehind
Dear Editor, Recently I was in the process of searching the Web to get some information on the proceedings at the St Mary Parish Council, such as minutes and key happenings in the parish over the past...
View ArticleTufton, Hanna need to tweak their message
Dear Editor, Dr Christopher Tufton, co-executive director of the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI) and former minister of agriculture and fisheries, has told Jamaicans entering the working...
View ArticleOur leaders are listening
Dear Editors, It is interesting to note that the opinions section of the Observer is not only viewed as voices of grumblers, complainers, and even people who spit venom at different sectors of our...
View ArticleLet's just raise goats on Goat Islands
Dear Editor, I am suggesting that Jamaica now implement a massive goat-rearing initiative in the Portland Bight area, specifically targeting the Goat Islands as preferred locations. We seem not to have...
View ArticleUN Security Council takes up NKorea's human rights
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AP) -- The UN Security Council placed North Korea's bleak human rights situation on its agenda yesterday, a groundbreaking step toward possibly holding the nuclear-armed...
View ArticleChristmas Day is only 24 hours!
Dear Editor, As the holiday season approaches I have been watching with some bewilderment the unnecessary and undue stress families and individuals are placing themselves under to usher in those...
View ArticleThe youth need their own engine
Dear Editor, I recently heard a proposal by Senator Ruel Reid to put the youth and culture portfolio in the Education Ministry. While I am of the view that the Good Senator is really thinking and that...
View ArticleJamaica's lost sense of democracy
Dear Editor, There has been a real absence of intelligent political representatives in Jamaica. Our current politicians merely read speeches and have no significant knowledge of history, economics or...
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