Building nationalism through civics
Dear Editor, For a small country, Jamaica has produced a large number of distinguished sons and daughters who have brought the island justifiable fame. Most of these have achieved distinction in...
View ArticleGetting serious about food production
Dear Editor, Jamaica, like almost all Caribbean countries, does not produce enough food to feed the local population. Yet the shortage of locally produced food is not the result of land scarcity. Land,...
View ArticleThe price for having Highway 2000
Dear Editor, Highway 2000 represents the largest investment in infrastructural development in Jamaica to date. But has or will Highway 2000 fulfil all that was promised?"From a national perpective,...
View ArticleCreating a truly productive and patriotic Jamaican
Dear Editor, There has been a lot of quibbling and moving to and fro concerning education in Jamaica to a point where one becomes confused as to the education pathway. At times the ministers are...
View ArticleWe are being stripped of our traditions
Dear Editor, In 1223, St Francis of Assisi simply and joyfully commemorated the scene of the Nativity according to the infancy Gospel, and the crib thus became one of the traditional and best-loved...
View ArticleHold company officials liable for NIS deductions
Dear Editor, It is pathetic to read that the minister is practically begging employers to pay over to the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), statutory deductions taken from employees' earnings. Even...
View ArticleAre unions to collect NIS deductions?
Dear Editor, It was with dismay that I read in the Jamaica Observer (Wednesday, December 19, 2012), an article in which the Minister of Labour and Social Security Hon Derrick Kellier bemoaned the...
View ArticleWe need to lift our spirits
Jamaica is reputed to have the most churches per square mile in the world. Rum bars have a similar status. But what does alcohol have in common with religion or, in the Jamaican context, what do...
View ArticleHealth centre nightmare
Dear Editor, The need to build a proper health centre befitting human dignity for residents of Golden Spring and its environs in West Rural St Andrew long outdates the first formal request for funding...
View ArticleDr Peter Phillips should resign
I am writing with great disappointment at the performance of the Minister of Finance Dr Peter Phillips. When then Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller announced him as opposition spokesman on...
View ArticleTime to discard Socialist nostalgia, Delano
Dear Editor, Although, I do not hold much affinity for former Prime Minister Edward Seaga, I think it is full time for our so-called thinkers to give him his worth as a nation builder. I have been...
View ArticleNonsense about Christmas
Dear Editor, Paul Kokoski (December 20) never tires of writing sentimental pap about his favourite superstition. Now it is a load of soppy drivel whining about Christmas losing what he imagines to be...
View ArticleUnhappy with US army decision
Dear Editor, I am disappointed with the US Army for seeking the death penalty against the US soldier responsible for killing 16 villagers in Afghanistan. The primary scope of any penalty is to redress...
View ArticleRescue by RICKSHAW
Dear Editor, With the JEEP stalling, Christmas roadside work apart, the arrival of the RICKSHAW is being touted by the government as the light at the end of the tunnel while heading over the financial...
View ArticleMy message to all gays, et al
Dear Editor, Please publish the following letter to J-FLAG and its supporters. Having being privileged to speak, via email, with several of the gay-rights lobbyists, with actual gays and their...
View ArticleShoddy conditions at Princess Margaret Hospital
Dear Editor, I think that in this day and age persons are supposed to receive the best quality care they deserve whenever they visit the hospital. On Friday, December 21, 2012, I, along with some of my...
View ArticleA job well done, Corey!
Dear Editor, I would like to commend Corey Robinson for the detailed article (Sunday Observer, December 23) he wrote sub-titled "Joy and pain as prisoners get limited time with relatives". I must admit...
View ArticleThe media must play key role
Dear Editor, In a few days the nation will start a new calendar year and we should, as usual, reflect on the one past, and determine what we want to see taking shape for the future. Of the many...
View ArticleAfter we sign the IMF deal…
Dear Editor, Everybody knows that any government that implements the well-needed reforms prescribed by the IMF agreement and the pain that follows can only serve one term. This, however, shouldn't...
View ArticleHog-like behaviour on the roads
Dear Editor, As the days go by, we are witnessing far more examples of crass, or better yet, hog-like behaviour on our streets than we have become accustomed to seeing in former years. The decline in...
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