JLP again showing its underbelly
Dear Editor, The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) continues to operate like crabs in a barrel. The recent suspension of the selection process for a new candidate in St Catherine West Central demonstrates...
View ArticleNDM worried about Bunting
Dear Editor, In light of recent remarks by the National Security Minister Peter Bunting, the National Democratic Movement would like answers to the following simple questions: Is National Security...
View ArticleNo amount of vehicles or equipment for the police can fix the decay
Dear Editor, There is a 21 per cent hike in crime in Jamaica and the only thing the minister of national security and his compatriots that make up the Government can think of doing is deploying more...
View ArticleIf all the foreigners should pack up and leave the TCI...
Dear Editor, I make reference to the letter written to Charles Washington Misick, finance minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), and published in last Sunday's Observer. The message in the...
View ArticleThe JLP house
Dear Editor, Reconstructing the decrepit 'house of the JLP' is far overdue, but party leader Andrew Holness prefers to build his own personal mansion first. Perhaps he is right in doing so....
View ArticleDr Ferguson's misplaced priorities
Dear Editor, Recently, I went to the Kingston Public Hospital with my uncle who needed urgent treatment for a medical condition. I waited nine hours before being attended to by a very stressed out...
View ArticleWhy the hate for J'cans?
Dear Editor, I'm writing to you because yesterday's (Monday, July 13, 2015) Trinidad and Tobago Newsday Paper published an article concerning a shortage of HIV/AIDS treatment. The article states that...
View ArticleAn apology is not enough, Bunting
Dear Editor, Historically, politicians have described their colleagues with disparaging slurs. We have heard the terms 'Jezebel, enemy of the state, fish, whimps, lackeys, yes-men, pathologically...
View ArticleGraduations not the place for politicking
Dear Editor, I am very concerned about the quality of representation of your parties at the various graduation exercises around this time of the year. In too many instances, the presentations by these...
View ArticleThe longer the protection, the higher the cost
Dear Editor, News is that the Government of Jamaica is planning to extend the duration of copyright from the current status of life plus 50 years after the death of the author, to life plus 95 years....
View ArticleThe most vicious attacker is on the loose: silence
Dear Editor, We try to unravel the various reasons our island is the way it is. We have identified our problems: high crime rates, domestic disputes, lack of educational opportunities, and we go on....
View ArticleBunting's folly
Dear Editor, I've become convinced that a peculiar ailment afflicts persons on the political stump. The diatribe that sometimes spews from the lips of otherwise intelligent and eloquent beings on the...
View ArticleWanted! Good Samaritans
Dear Editor, At approximately 7:30 pm two Saturdays ago I was walking along Main Street in the resort town of Ocho Rios, just metres away from the busy thoroughfare, when I saw a blind man trying to...
View ArticleThe US$300K was only marketing
Dear Editor, The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) wishes to clarify information contained in an article carried in the Daily Observer of July 16, 2015, entitled 'MoBay Convention Centre continues to...
View ArticleTime to integrate national ID systems
Dear Editor, The Government/Opposition should think about merging the responsibilities of the country's pension scheme (NIS) and management of national pension fund into an executive agency. Fashioned...
View ArticleCaitlyn Jenner's powerful ESPYS speech
Dear Editor, As I watched the powerful, yet emotional speech given by famed transgender Caitlyn Jenner, on accepting the ESPYS Arthur Ashe Award for Courage, I couldn't help but think about how people...
View ArticleIs the PNP Gov't a case of Sandiford Syndrome?
Dear Editor, In June 1987, Errol Barrow, the first prime minister of Barbados, died one year after being re-elected to office. He was replaced by Erskine Sandiford who led the Democratic Labour Party...
View ArticleDayton Campbell's own 'labourisation' of the PNP
Dear Editor, The member of parliament for St Ann North Western Dr Dayton Campbell has been making much about former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) members joining his party, describing it as the...
View ArticleGood move, Kellier
Dear Editor, I recently attended the annual general meeting of the Jamaica Agriculture Society (JAS) on the Denbigh grounds, where the main activity was the election of the national executive. At the...
View ArticleJamaica in danger of becoming one-party state
Dear Editor, Is Jamaica ready for a one-party state? It is evident that this is where the country is heading. There is no doubt that the prime minister, Mrs Simpson Miller, will be relinquishing her...
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