If Mukulu was an error, how many other errors did you make, Witter?
Dear Editor, I am disappointed with the reasons given by the Public Service Commission for not appointing Matondo Mukulu to the position of public defender. I am even more disappointed with what seems...
View ArticlePortmore mosquito experience chronic
Dear Editor, While the mosquito nuisance has been part and parcel of our Portmore existence, we are now experiencing mosquito infestation akin to the plague visited upon ancient Egypt in biblical...
View ArticleGive the full picture of Singapore, Higgins
Dear Editor, Having read columnist Garfield Higgins' piece in The Agenda on Sunday, January 4, 2015, titled 'In the PNP they know nothing about growth', I must add him to the long list of those who, in...
View ArticleRoadside sellers need space
Dear Editor, Based on the number of sellers on the roads in downtown Kingston, it is obvious that the Jamaican people are willing to earn an honest bread but do not have enough capital to either build...
View ArticleJPS forcing customers' hands
Dear Editor, One of the basic tenets of consumerism is the right of the consumer to choose. However, we live in a society where this basic right is fast disappearing. The Jamaican consumer's right to...
View ArticleIf tax net widens, only the Church can save us
Dear Editor, The decline in the price of oil means that overall tax revenues will decline for 2015. The best option, therefore, is to gear policy towards research and development. I can see someone...
View ArticleOur cultural psyche is reprehensible
Dear Editor, Privacy in Jamaica is in need of protection. It seems to me many things that become issues were not so fated. But it would make sense that we would not know how to protect something we do...
View ArticleYouth for Change upset at Witter's statements
Dear Editor, We at Youth for Change have found the recent comments made by former Public Defender Earl Witter regarding "young" Acting Public Defender Matondo Mukulu very disturbing. How can it be that...
View ArticleJa may well find her Obama?
Dear Editor, Mark Wignall's column in the Sunday Observer asks the question, 'Where is Jamaica's Obama?' It is indeed an interesting question, even if a bit irrelevant given the circumstances of the...
View ArticleWe feel as if HEART sold us a 6 for a 9
Dear Editor, It may be good for us to address all discrepancies regarding accreditation once and for all. It is disheartening to see the attention being placed on institutions such as Hydel and Mico...
View ArticleIndiscipline is Ja's big problem
Dear Editor, That the Jamaican society is permeated with indiscipline no one can deny. The high level of murders and other crimes of all sorts committed each year, and the resultant legislation to curb...
View ArticleExtra lesson or extra money?
Dear Editor, The country's education system has forcibly removed me from the bars of silence to expose the fallacy of education the nation's children are being subjected to. Too long we echo the...
View ArticleTime for a national human rights institution
Dear Editor, Quite wisely, our parliamentarians voted overwhelmingly to allow private individuals to sue other private individuals for breaches of their human rights under the 2011 Charter of...
View Article60 per cent is hard to get!
Dear Editor, I've read what was published in the Observer of Friday, December 12, 2014 regarding the student nurses and their exams. It's quite an upstir and, based on the comments I've read, I realise...
View ArticleNot victimisation; just poor WICB selection
Dear Editor, Those quick to accuse the West Indies selection committee chaired by Clive Lloyd of victimising Dwayne Bravo and Keiron Pollard for their roles in the aborted India tour may be missing the...
View ArticleCheck up on CHEC
Dear Editor, I note the Caymanas Country Club Estate house owners fuming at the "re-alignment" of the Highway 2000 through their backyards because it had to avoid the Ferry Police Station, Hydel School...
View ArticleA take on the Flow ad
Dear Editor, Every time I see the Flow Christmas TV advertisement I feel offended. The advertisement shows a man playing the role of a husband and father. Yet, while in a family setting at home he...
View ArticleRestraint, really Minister?
Dear Editor, I am bemused and insulted by the pronouncement of the Minister Horace Dalley that the unions and its members should show restraint in wage negotiations. I would love to know if he ever...
View ArticleRemind children they are children
Dear Editor, In the Bible, Job in his affliction (Chapter 30) complained about the youth of his generation. In his protest he saw them rising up in the ways of their destruction. The Shepherd's rod is...
View ArticleSomeone should sue for pain and suffering from CHIKV
Dear Editor, It is now 12 weeks since I got the chikungunya virus. I had to stay home for five days after visiting the doctor and the pharmacy. Up to today, I still experience serious joint pains all...
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