A day with a difference at Friendship Primary
Dear Editor, The Friendship Primary School in Spanish Town, St Catherine, had its annual Parents' Day on November 29, 2012. It was a Parents' Day with a difference. In attendance were representatives...
View ArticleVirgin birth explained
Dear Editor, While there are some people who have good reasons to doubt that Jesus even existed at all, I am willing to concede that he must have been a real person - at least for now. However, what is...
View ArticleWomen, don't allow your men to beat you!
Dear Editor, I refer to recent aricles in the Jamaica Observer about battered Christian wives. It is not ignorance or a feeling of inferiority that makes Christian wives allow their husbands to abuse...
View ArticleSpain supports chapels at universities
Dear Editor, The newspaper El Pais started a campaign in Spain to open an outdated discussion: Do you support chapels at public universities? Many people answered - an overwhelming 88 per cent said...
View ArticleChart the right course now!
Dear Editor, When Dr Martin Luther King gave his inspiring "I have a dream" speech on the Washington Mall in 1963, Jamaica was an independent country. A Bank of Jamaica survey showed that £12 million...
View ArticleWhere was the Observer when the PNM practised ‘ethnic stocking’?
Dear Editor, The Jamaica Observer’s editorial of December 11, 2012 raises questions of fairness and honesty in journalism in the editorial, “The more important issue is abuse of substance”. Why a...
View ArticleSubstance lacking
Dear Editor, As the high commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago to Jamaica, let me first respectfully say that in my experience, there are times when shouting across the Caribbean Sea does not help a...
View ArticleReorganise or close the Transport Authority
Dear Editor, Head of the Police Traffic Division, Senior Superintendent Radcliffe Lewis, has said, "We are going to ensure that they are in full compliance of the Road Traffic Act." Most of the...
View ArticleNo need to beg
Dear Editor, The minister of industry has been asking foreign diplomats to help Jamaica realise the dream of a deep-water port to capitalise on the expansion of the Panama Canal. In doing so he appears...
View ArticleAntonio Maceo: In Memoriam
Dear Editor, For anyone interested in the history of Cuba and of the Americas, the date of December 7 has more profound foreboding than the fateful event of 1941. For it was on December 7, 1896 that...
View ArticleAction needed from fora like these
Dear Editor, On November 28, 2012, while attending the Research Symposium hosted by the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), to my horror I had to contend with the fact that the institute, after two years of...
View ArticleA tower of a man
Dear Editor, Very rarely we come across a dynamic, aggressive, persuasive and determined individual we may classify as a truly born son of the soil; one who will give his all to fight for equal rights...
View ArticleThe marital status of Jesus
Dear Editor, With the recent discovery of a papyrus fragment which seems to suggest that Jesus was married, and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code which takes a similar position, it has become necessary to...
View Article'A word to the wise'
Dear Editor, I wish to respond to the article by Dr Franklin Johnston in the Jamaica Observer of November 2, 2012, "The teflon teacher". I am so disgusted by the column in which he described his...
View ArticleBe vigilant about gay rights
Dear Editor, I write on the trials at Nuremberg and gay rights. After World War II the victorious Allies sought to bring the Nazi leadership to justice for their deeds such as the atrocities in the...
View ArticleAhh...those politicians
Dear Editor, The prime minister says they had it, so we have to have it too. She finds it incomprehensible to do anything different. Result – increasing debt. Ministers can do without expensive SUVs....
View ArticleBitter medicine ain’t new!
Dear Editor, The Jamaican people have been drinking bitter medicine ever since the PNP put the country into the hands of the IMF. Up to 1972 when the JLP was voted out of office, the country’s economy...
View ArticleReally now, is that right, Mr Jones?
Dear Editor, In The Jamaica Observer of December 14, 2012, one Kenneth Jones wrote that “successive governments have found it difficult to think big, as Seaga did and still does. They have become so...
View ArticleBig thinking
Dear Editor, Whatever his detractors might say, Edward Seaga, as the records reveal, accomplished vastly more in Jamaica's modern development than any other three politicians of his time combined. The...
View ArticleThe disabled are people too!
Dear Editor, It is a widely held unspoken view here that when someone has a disability, notwithstanding its nature, the person is by extension a handicap - and thus should stay locked away unseen in an...
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