We need the will to fix water woes sooner than later
Dear Editor, We need water! Two weeks ago as I traversed the leg of our new highway system which runs north to Moneague, it hit me that this was truly an engineering marvel. I stopped to admire the...
View ArticleNot the OUR
Dear Editor, We write with reference to the letter to the editor published in the Observer on Monday, September 21, 2015, 'Cable company attacks while nation sleeps' . The Office of Utilities...
View ArticleGov't selling out and foreigners buying in
Dear Editor, Anything and everything that can be sold by the Government, it would seem, is up for sale. It would prove challenging to refute such claims. A fire sale of the country's assets is clearly...
View ArticleWatch it, Usain!
Dear Editor, Could you take a look at today's TMZ or Daily Mail Online websites and view the video of Usain in a strip club slapping the backside of a stripper and sticking dollar bills in her thong....
View ArticleCameron is doing his job
Dear Editor, A £25-m prison gift? Why do I feel that we're being set up here? I can't help thinking: Trojan Horse. We're not even worth the dignity of a civil conversation about redressing the ills of...
View ArticleEnsure economic benefit from prison project
Dear Editor, Ever since the announcement by David Cameron, UK prime minister, of a grant to build a prison to house Jamaican prisoners who will shortly be deported, I have heard varying opinions and...
View ArticleSuddenly not a citizen?
Dear Editor, On his recent visit to Jamaica, British Prime Minister David Cameron dared to tell Jamaicans to forget about slavery for, after all, Britain led the way to its abolition -- after they had...
View ArticlePrison ‘exchange’ just like DR ‘kick out’
Dear Editor, This British gift is a slap in the face of Jamaican pride and self-imagery. Britain is, in fact, saying, "This is all unnu good fah! Hold a big prison and jus' kool." The jails in Jamaica...
View ArticleWe're taking on more crosses to bear
Dear Editor, It is very disheartening that at a time when many Jamaicans are complaining about the austere measures under which we must live, that our own Government would invite a head of state to...
View ArticleHealth ministry doesn't seem to be taking disease outbreak seriously
Dear Editor, I am a Jamaican formerly employed to the public health system in Thailand. I see news reports over the last few days highlighting an outbreak of the hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). I...
View Article$330 for a 3-y-o on a JUTC bus!
Dear Editor, Yesterday I took a Jamaica Urban Transit Company premium bus, which runs from Kingston to Old Harbour. Upon entering the bus with my three-year-old daughter in my hands, sleeping, I was...
View ArticleReparation: Forgiveness for sale
Dear Editor, It is partly because of our people's large appetite for tangible gestures, as shown by our calls for reparation for slavery, which has made our relationships with each other, with others,...
View ArticleFair trial impossible for Gov Eyre
Dear Editor, As part of the heritage month celebrations, Governor Eyre, the British governor who suppressed the Morant Bay riots 150 years ago, will be put on trial. If this trial is supposed to be a...
View ArticlePrison this, prison that
Twenty-five million pounds or 40 per cent. By now all Jamaicans know these figures. The purpose of said figures is also the reason so many of us are incensed. But, why exactly? Is it merely because of...
View ArticleIt's cruelty
Dear Editor, I am deeply horrified by the headline you chose for your recent article in the Jamaica Observer. Animal cruelty across the Caribbean, especially towards dogs, is rising at an alarming...
View ArticleHope Crawford learns from his mistake
Dear Editor, It has not been since the sentencing of Vybz Kartel that I have been so pleased with a decision by the people, for the people, as I was when the results of the constituency election in St...
View ArticleI would love to have a PM like Cameron
Dear Editor, David Cameron is clearly a man who is dedicated to his country's good; not the good of the world, but the good of his country. He is clearly not swayed by the local tongues of Jamaicans...
View ArticleDangers lurking in our delegates-controlled politics
Dear Editor, Danville Walker's letter in the Jamaica Observer on Monday, October 5, 2015 should be seen as a serious warning to concerned Jamaicans that there are clear and present dangers ahead for...
View ArticleToo hypocritical on reparation
Dear Editor, The recent visit by British Prime Minister David Cameron to our island has once again ignited the issue of reparation in certain quarters. The proponents of reparation seem to have as the...
View ArticleArticulate minority not a JLP thing
Dear Editor, After reading the column entitled 'Foolish articulate minority' by Marlando Francis in the Daily Observer edition of October 7, 2015, I felt compelled to respond to some misconceptions as...
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