No 'amen' from Independent churches
Dear Editor, When Prime Minister David Cameron announced the generous gift of £25 million to Jamaica for building a prison that will facilitate his 300 prisoners, he forgot to mention how much it would...
View ArticleDon't stoop to personal attacks, Mr Burns
Dear Editor, Your columnist Christopher Burns, in his piece in The Agenda on Sunday, October 11, was most scathing in his attack on minister with responsibility for information, Sandrea Falconer. While...
View ArticleSenate reality show
Dear Editor, Last week, and this week once again, we could witness that sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. The Kafkaesque reality show in the Upper House has surpassed even the most bizarre stage...
View ArticleBelieve it when you see it
Dear Editor, An announcement has been made that a US$350-million investment will take place in the Spanish Town area that will create some 10,000 jobs. Now, while we all would dearly like to see this...
View ArticleJLP playing with the buggery issue
Dear Editor, The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is desperately grabbing at straws now in an effort to make news headlines and trying to gain points with an electorate that is fed up on so many levels. JLP...
View ArticleIn a real sense
Dear Editor, What a past week we have had in the Jamaican politricks! From the minister of health in Parliament trying to justify the deaths of at least 19 Jamaican babies in our hospitals due to a...
View ArticleSenate's much ado about nothing
Dear Editor, I have been following the progress of the three Bills in Parliament for a major change to the judiciary, replacing the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council by the Caribbean Court of...
View ArticleThe JLP must be patrotic
Dear Editor, Jamaica is no banana republic under the Portia Simpson Miller Administration, so the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) must return to the Senate and treat matters of State with patriotism,...
View ArticleBasic gov't services still in Dark Ages
Dear Editor, Last year November I applied to the Registrar General's Department (RGD) for reinstatement as a marriage officer -- having lived abroad for several years. I paid the requisite sum, took...
View ArticleJa's serious death crisis
Dear Editor, Jamaica is overwhelmed with a serious death crisis. We have been hit by two huge calamities: (1) The death rate based on crime and violence has surpassed the 1,000 mark; (2) Road...
View ArticleNo praise for RGD
Dear Editor, From time to time we read where citizens heap praise on the Registrar General's Department (RGD). But from my experience with the RGD I am baffled to think it is the same institution. More...
View ArticleHealth sector needs better leadership
Dear Editor, As a prominent member of the medical/pharmaceutical fraternity nationally, I must register my disdain at the highly insensitive remark made by Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson, recently,...
View ArticleCHASE helps RISE
Dear Editor, While many contemplate the negatives versus the positives in the conditional gifting of a prison from the UK Government RISE Life Management Services, without hesitation, would like to...
View ArticleHolness's statement irresponsible
Dear Editor, Let us all read beyond the headlines of Andrew Holness's statement, "Murder more rampant under PNP", which appeared in the Observer of November 2, 2015. I found the statement rather...
View ArticleMature thinking on Caribbean matters
Dear Editor, Despite Jamaica's many failures, the electorate has indeed matured over the years. However, the tactics of visionless politicians never change. Instead of creating workable policies to...
View ArticleLet's not have the same old leadership debates
Dear Editor, There are indications that the general election is coming soon. One would therefore expect that the debates between the political leaders are also in the making, which will give the...
View ArticleDave Cameron is only half-right
Dear Editor,"What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?" asked C L R James in his famous book Beyond The Boundary. The Jamaica Observer interview with West Indies Cricket Board President Dave...
View ArticleChampion of rights
The evolution of the St Hilda's head girl saga suggests to me that the public defender is displaying her own bigotry by her premature insertion into this matter and by calling for "anti-bigotry laws"....
View ArticleOur penny wise, pound foolish Gov't puts us at risk
Dear Editor, The National Consumers League (NCL) is concerned about recent occurrences affecting the nation's health. Last year, the country suffered from the chikungunya virus which disabled a...
View ArticleI cry for my nation
Dear Editor, Tears, tears, tears, my heart and soul weep in unquenchable pain and emotional hurt. My humanity is being tested as the heartless and vile around me walk proudly after killing father and...
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