No water for 7 days!
Dear Editor, I reside in Black River, St Elizabeth, and I am a paying customer of the National Water Commission (NWC). On Monday, May 26, 2015, I was advised by an engineer with a truckload of workmen...
View ArticleBackup!
Dear Editor, We often see Facebook status updates, group invites, tweets or e-mail from friends and acquaintances saying something to the effect of: "My phone has been lost or stolen and I lost...
View ArticlePolice, teachers must put country above self
Dear Editor, The present impasse in wage negotiations between the Government and public sector workers brings into sharp focus the breakdown of patriotism in us as a people and our inability to put...
View ArticleSocial media 'cuss out' highlights bigger issue
Dear Editor, It is good news, in fact refreshing news, that Jodi 'Jinx' Henriques, the wife of international dancehall sensation Sean Paul, has discovered that she has uttered the wrong words, words...
View ArticlePSOJ just propping up Gov't
Dear Editor, I read with laughable interest your front page story on Tuesday, June 2, 2015, titled 'PSOJ sympathy -- Private sector says civil servants deserve wage increase, but...'. Frankly, I am not...
View ArticleOld-time sinting come back
Dear Editor, It appears as if Audley Shaw's islandwide consultations regarding his bid for leadership of the JLP illustrates dialogue and peaceful audience with supporters. On the other hand the...
View ArticleFrom one State to another
Dear Editor, I do not comprehend how a sovereign, independent, autonomous, self-governing free State would be satsfied with the transfer of our final court from a colonial power to another...
View ArticleCockpit Country: What we know now
Dear Editor, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica Environment Trust, Water Resources Authority (under the Ministry of Water and Housing) and others now know the full extent of the importance of...
View ArticleCan't carry patriotism to supermarket, Bingy Smith
Dear Editor, I write in response to a letter by Fernandez 'Bingy' Smith, published in the Daily Observer of June 4, 2015. His view, reflected by a number of members and supporters of the current...
View ArticleCXC has much to celebrate, but...
Dear Editor, One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. -- Chinua Achebe The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has had a proud and illustrious history serving as a...
View ArticleThe JLP must get it together
Dear Editor, I get a strong feeling that some senior members of the Jamaica Labour Party are past their expiry date and they just don't get it! The public wants to see the 'appearance' of a united...
View ArticleDawg a go nyam wi suppa
Dear Editor,'Job losses ahead' screamed the headlines of one of the country's major newspapers, foretelling the potential woes that lie ahead for some 15,000 Jamaican public sector workers. It does not...
View ArticleGov't must bite the bullet
Dear Editor, I have heard on the news that in order for the Government to pay the civil servants the pay increase being requested, we the taxpayers will have to bear this increase. Can't the Government...
View ArticleWhat's really up with Al Miller's case?
Dear Editor, In light of former Police Commissioner Owen Ellington's testimony at the Tivoli Enquiry, I am still struggling to understand the basis upon which Pastor Al Miller continues being legally...
View ArticleWhere are the Maroons we read about?
Dear Editor, For years I taught history and made my classes lively as I presented the Maroons as warriors, champions, challengers, the first set of no-nonsense people, and winners supreme. But today I...
View ArticlePlaying politics with wages, jobs
Dear Editor, As soon as Jamaica entered this new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) former Prime Minister Edward Seaga wrote an article about his 1980s experience with them. Seaga...
View ArticleDon't underestimate Portia
Dear Editor, In a country notorious for elevating talk over action, columnist Chris Burns in The Agenda on June 7, 2015 may be making the same mistake as many others have in questioning or...
View ArticleThat photo revisited
Dear Editor, A few years ago, I heard a popular radio personality announce on air that he won't ever forget the stunning picture of Ursula Andress emerging from the sea in the James Bond movie Dr No...
View ArticleIs politics one big scam?
Dear Editor, In Jamaica scamming can be no doubt placed in the top 10 highest-paying jobs. However, the way it has been publicised it has now been considered as a career that children want to pursue....
View ArticleDon't take Portmore for granted, Gov't
Dear Editor, The right to vote and the opportunity to vote are two basic features of any democracy. In sections of Portmore this right was never afforded to a number of electors in the Portmore Pines...
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