Flawed statistics, Dr Aarons
Dear Editor, I believe that Dr Derrick Aarons has done himself and your newspaper a great disservice by his claim, in his piece 'Varying sexual identities' in the Sunday Observer of August 2, 2015,...
View ArticleThe OUR is a waste of taxpayers' money
Dear Editor, In the month of January 2015 I experienced a voltage spike in my business. The spike caused damage to several of my equipment and refrigerators. I filed a complaint with the Jamaica Public...
View ArticleWe want info on our doctors
Dear Editor, In some jurisdictions information regarding a doctor's training and experience is readily available. While it is true that the Medical Council of Jamaica has a registry of doctors who are...
View Article16 and worried about water
Dear Editor, I am a 16-year-old girl who finds it incredibly uncomfortable to carry out basic hygiene tasks on a day-to-day basis because running water is not available. Sometimes I will even remain...
View ArticleWarmington 'flipping the doctor bird'
Dear Editor, A photograph was recently released on social media via this media entity that purportedly showed JLP Member of Parliament Everald Warmington with his arm extended, saluting the media's...
View ArticleSelfie responsibly
Dear Editor, Selfie sticks are becoming, slowly, but increasingly popular in our country. This useful product for photography enthusiasts was listed in TIME magazine's 25 best inventions of 2014....
View ArticleCut Holness now, then right the ship
Dear Editor, The Jamaica Labour Party's political expediency has come back to haunt it. For, he who was trumpeted as a political messiah, and the last best hope for Jamaica, has proven to be nothing...
View ArticleLet's rally around our 115-y-o national treasure
Dear Editor, I would like to use your medium to bring to our attention another grand opportunity for another world record by a Jamaican, with the attendant publicity that we could never afford for this...
View ArticleThese increased toll fees
Dear Editor, With the revelation of plans to increase toll rates on the North-South Highway at the Mount Rosser toll plaza by as much as 80 per cent, I think the public should be sensitised to the...
View ArticlePATH students being held at ransom for auxiliary fees
This is an open letter to Minister of Education Ronald Thwaites: Dear Editor, I once heard the minister of education saying on the news that students on the Programme for Advancement Through Health and...
View ArticleWe should declare a National Day of Mourning
Dear Editor, On Sunday, September 9, 1957, a Day of National Mourning was declared by the Jamaican Government for the 250 or more people who died on September 1, 1957 in that terrible Kendal train...
View ArticleWe don't want to abuse our freedom too, Champagnie
Dear Editor, I note the letter to teh editor, 'Nothing but Wamington's resignation', published in the Observer edition of Thursday, August 13, 2015 from noted attorney Peter Champagnie, commenting on...
View ArticleThe 'humpty dumpty' of J'can politics
Dear Editor, History will not be kind to the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) for the way the they have let down the Jamaican people. Here we have a country in crisis, poor governance, social and political...
View ArticleHas the PNP really done all it can for the poor?
Dear Editor, I read with outrage an article wherein the Finance and Planning Minister Dr Peter Phillips stated that "the PNP has done all it can for poor Jamaicans", at the same time urging Jamaicans...
View ArticleGarveyism has been reduced to entertainment
Dear Editor, I don't think we will find many people these days who believe that the Garvey movement isn't much more than a talk shop. Nearly a century has passed since Garvey went all over the place...
View ArticleGambling tips, gambling tricks
Dear Editor, Gambling exploits human vulnerability and folly. People tend to be vulnerable to slick, but untrue, ads regarding gambling. Cash pot asks you to choose a number from one to 36 and says...
View ArticleTolerating the intolerant of tolerance
Dear Editor, Apparently, the only opinion that matters now is that of tolerance. Tolerance for what, might I ask? Is it still not morally wrong for a man to murder and steal? Lest we forget, it is...
View Article'We have protected the most vulnerable' is what I said
Dear Editor, After reading a report in The Gleaner of Monday, August 17, 2015 of what I was supposed to have said at a PNP meeting in St Mary on Sunday night, I instinctively felt the need to provide...
View ArticleJUTC has an HRM problem
The increase in the number and frequency of accidents involving the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) buses and their drivers point to a problem in its Human Resource Management department. Given...
View ArticleThis Gov't encourages too much dependence
Dear Editor, Dr Peter Phillips has been criticised for stating that his Administration has done all it can to help the poor. However, his statement only confirms what is wrong with Jamaican politics....
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