The route to a Diaspora MP
Dear Editor, Opposition Leader Andrew Holness recently reignited the debate about political representation for Jamaicans in the diaspora by proposing that they be allowed to directly elect a member of...
View ArticleIn-command cop
Dear Editor, On August 8, 2015 there was a devastating accident on Dunrobin Avenue Road between a motor car and a motorcycle. The motorcyclist had to be hospitalised. The Half-Way-Tree Police Station...
View ArticleSunshine Girls threatened?
Dear Editor, Please tell me that the authors of threats against our Sunshine Girls, reported in the Observer of Wednesday, August 19, had the decency to also publish "their" names and photographs in...
View ArticleRainford was Ja's global agricultural ambassador
Dear Editor, The Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) and the extended agricultural sector, in particular the Jamaica Livestock Association (JLA), mourn the passing of its chairman and chief executive...
View ArticleDon't promote Warmington's conduct, counsel him
Dear Editor, Having first heard of Everald Warmington's uncivil conduct via radio, it didn't require my actually seeing it to believe that it actually occurred, or to appreciate the deplorability of...
View ArticleLet's not wait on our own Brazil moment to fight corruption
Dear Editor, Corruption is arguably the biggest threat to any country's long-term survival and development. The current scandal plaguing Petrobras, Brazil's State oil company should be a lesson for all...
View ArticleDo something about Warmington!
Dear Editor, The fundamental issue I have with us, as Jamaicans, is that we are quick to major in minor issues. When Minister Hanna posted a picture of herself on the beach it was debated to death for...
View ArticleMy granddad's been in a wheelchair for over 24hrs!
Dear Editor, I'm writing this with tears in my eyes, as this morning I was informed that my granddad has been admitted to the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay after he got stroke leaving half...
View ArticleIncrease in rogue cops dark days for Ja
Dear Editor, Not too long ago, the nation was in a frenzy, mayhem even, as we bemoaned and condemned the brutal and vicious killing of woman Constable Crystal Thomas as she attempted to foil a robbery...
View ArticleRestore credibility to JCF
Dear Editor, His Excellency the Governor General of Jamaica Patrick Allen has, in his recent Independence message, called on all Jamaicans to "urgently join forces against crime and violence which...
View ArticleAshamed of Silver Star Motors' behaviour
Dear Editor: I am a university lecturer and I have been shopping around in an effort to acquire a new motor vehicle. Doing my research my eyes popped and my heart fluttered when I saw some members of...
View ArticlePraise Castro?
Dear Editor, For the past 50 years thousands of Cubans have died in the Florida Straits trying to escape the island, and Jamaicans are so ignorant that they celebrate Castro and elevate him to hero...
View ArticleNew test for pancreatic cancer
Dear Editor, Cancer of the pancreas is always a heart-breaking diagnosis to make. Usually when we make this diagnosis, the cancer has already spread to other organs and there is little that we can...
View ArticleFailed leadership, PM
Dear Editor, Until now, Madam Prime Minister, I believed you were capable of better leadership than what has been played. You have what I regard as a reasonably good team around you, providing you the...
View ArticleThwaites''leggo beast' comment truthful and well-intentioned
Dear Editor, Recently, the Education Minister Ronald Thwaites stated that parents should not send 'leggo beast' children to school and expect teachers to re-mould them. Many people have misinterpreted...
View ArticleINDECOM is necessary!
Dear Editor, The recent rhetoric of Police Federation Chairman Sergeant Raymond Wilson at the funeral of a slain police woman, and MP Damion Crawford's blasting of the importance of the Independent...
View ArticleJLP and PNP infighting suprising healthy
Dear Editor, I'm here to save the day for people who are of the belief that being voiceless and timid, in just about any and every relationship in their lives, is worthy of a gold star or a pat on the...
View ArticleThis is why I don't vote
Dear Editor, With the next general election coming soon, there is a charge to those of us who don't want to vote to get up and fulfil our civic responsibility and take part in the electoral process....
View ArticleThe fight for Garvey in schools
Dear Editor, The famous Jamaican artist Ireko Baker and I, some years ago, got together and wrote a book titled Marcus Teaches Us. I reprinted it in 2013 which cost me a lot of foreign dollars as it is...
View ArticleMoBay needs a courthouse
Dear Editor, Quite a number of prominent Montego Bay business leaders, including the former president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Nathan Robb, and St James Central Member of...
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