Much ado about debt
Dear Editor, An excerpt from a report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research in the United States finds that Jamaica is running the most austere budget in the world, with a primary surplus of...
View ArticlePresidential pardon for Buju?
Dear Editor, I sincerely hope that with all the fanfare, street-fixing, street vendor evicting, and Senator A J Nicholson's chest-beating, that a possible presidential pardon for incarcerated Jamaican...
View ArticleWhy blame the IMF?
Dear Editor, It is said that the current International Monetary Fund programme with our government has caused Jamaicans to face the "harshest austerity policies in world". The report, published by the...
View ArticleBarack would be sad
Dear Editor, The coming of Barack Obama has created many changes. It is a pity that because of our great genuine love for the black US president we have had to endure so much injustice. Why do we fix...
View ArticleHealthy coalition nonsense!
After reading comments by the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society (JCHS) all over the media, I am forced to respond to what is obviously mass propaganda and hysteria. We never hear of this group...
View ArticleAn honour to have you, Mr President
Dear Editor, Ever since the announcement of the visit of Barack Obama, the president of the United States of America, there has been issue after issue after issue. This has, somehow, given the...
View ArticlePatient judge, Observer, but...
Dear Editor, With reference to your editorial in the Jamaica Observer, dated April 2, 2015, 'Caricom has no ambition to lead OAS', it is good to know that your newspaper is keenly interested in the...
View ArticleLock up attorneys who breach the law
Dear Editor, Prominent Kingston-based attorney-at-law Peter Champagnie, in a letter to the editor published in the Daily Observer edition of Monday, April 6, 2015, eruditely wrote relating to the many...
View ArticleJournalistic immaturity!
Dear Editor, I looked on in horror when Janella Precius of TVJ asked the prime minister, as she was exiting the tarmac at the airport, whether she regretted the efforts to spruce up the city in...
View ArticleExcellent job, JIS
Dear Editor, I would like to use this medium to express gratitude to the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) for a job well done on the coverage of the visit of the 44th president of the United States to...
View ArticleA hypocritical Government
Dear Editor, I am really dissatisfied by the way in which the Government of Jamaica continues to disrespect its own people. The visit to Jamaica by the President of the United States Barack Obama has...
View ArticleMashing down self-reliance
Dear Editor, I remember the days of the mid-1970s when the erstwile Michael Manley preached self-reliance to Jamaicans: The concept of taking charge of your own destiny, creating your own employment,...
View ArticleMuch ado about everything
Dear Editor, Today, Jamaica is basking in the reflected glory of hosting the president of the United States. After two to three weeks of anticipation, speculation and commentary this is as good a time...
View ArticleJLP, yuh look small!
Dear Editor, Well, well, the US President has come and gone. There was a lot of chatter during the preparations regarding whether it was an official visit or not, whether the leader of the Opposition...
View ArticleObama made Kingston's overnight facelift possible
Dear Editor, President Barack Obama has inspired millions, not just in the USA, but the world over. He symbolises possibility, hope and change. President Obama and his family serve as the face of what...
View ArticleBring back ISCF
Dear Editor, In March 2014, when Minister Peter Bunting and Commissioner Owen Ellington were moving to merge the Island Special Constabulary (ISCF) and the Jamaica Constabulary Force, I wrote a letter...
View ArticleSpirit of the Senate
The founding fathers envisaged the Senate as a place for people who could bring independent thought and a fresh perspective to the national debate, unfettered by partisan loyalty. Norman Manley...
View ArticleCaricom's shame
Dear Editor, Kenny Anthony was guest speaker at the UWI's recently concluded Distinguished Open Lecture Series. This event did not receive much media coverage, but the sober analysis of Anthony is of...
View ArticleBob Marley would 'bun out' Obama
Dear Editor, First, let me say that I have utmost respect for most of the views and actions of Bob Marley. On the first night of Barack Obama's visit to Jamaica he made what seemed a beeline to the Bob...
View ArticleBold move by attorney Champagnie
Dear Editor, I want to commend Peter Champagnie for a recent letter to the editor on lawyers and the legal profession. In my recollection, this is the first time that any lawyer has spoken out on...
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