Fix it at July 1
Dear Editor, We need a fixed election date now more than any time since Universal Adult Suffrage was granted to Jamaica in 1944. The election date should be entrenched in the Constitution of Jamaica....
View ArticlePolitics of old going nowhere for the JLP
Dear Editor, Over the years, from time to time, I have heard some of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) politicians, particularly Audley Shaw and Pearnel Charles, spout their views on the way forward. They...
View ArticleVote until something happens
Dear Editor, As the political campaigning keeps raging in the background, and with the anticipation this week that the most honourable prime minister may soon give us the date we should be going to the...
View ArticleVictor Edwards — a master at his craft
Dear Editor, I read with great sadness of the passing of Victor Edwards, past president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association The old boys who attended Cornwall College in the 50s and early 60s remember...
View ArticleSpoil the votes!
Dear Editor, Our country is one of contradictions, a satirist's paradise. One doesn't have to conjure up tales strange and bewildering, if not downright hilarious, as daily our news is packed with...
View ArticleA public library, my saviour
Dear Editor, I write to express my deepest appreciation for the wonderful service I have been privileged to enjoy for over 10 years. I was born in the early 70s in rural St Andrew and understand...
View ArticleSympathies from behind the glass
Dear Editor, France has my sympathies, as it does from many others from across Jamaica and the world, including highly placed people such as the premiers of the G-20, who were meeting in Turkey for...
View ArticleStop pointing fingers!
Dear Editor, I wish to respond to an online article in the Observer, published on November 17, 2015, titled 'Dudus destroyed Jamaica's reputation'. I am not here to defend the Jamaica Labour Party...
View ArticleTired of both of them!
Dear Editor, I wish for the day when Jamaicans get completely tired of the Jamaica Labour Party and the People's National Party and they will cease to exist in Jamaicans' minds and hearts as they do....
View ArticleWhat can the JLP offer Jamaica?
Dear Editor, I find it utterly amazing that with an election somewhere around the corner the only thing the Opposition has offered to the people of Jamaica, so far, is criticism after criticism,...
View ArticleIs it OK to kill for God?
Dear Editor, In today's enlightened world mankind is still faced with the question of violence and killing for the preservation of what many consider to be the will of God. There are some things that...
View ArticleDo not allow Syrian refugees entry to Jamaica
Dear Editor, While the jihadists wreak havoc and misery in Africa and Europe, especially ISIS and Boko Haram, a refugee crisis has developed in the world. We, in Jamaica, should not think that the...
View ArticleSenator Williams' empty protest
Dear Editor, I write in response to the Sunday Observer commentary by Balford Henry, headlined 'The Arthur Williams, Malahoo Forte issue', published November 22, 2015. Senator Marlene Malahoo Forte's...
View ArticleHold elections more often!
Dear Editor, Why is it we only manage to get things done in election time? I saw a ground-breaking for a transitional home for female wards moving out of Government care. This is a great move for the...
View ArticleWe are why we're poor
I am somewhat amazed by the Sunday Observer editorial of November 22 edition which asks the question: If Jamaicans are so special, why are Jamaicans at home so poor? I say amazed because I have written...
View ArticleFlow Super Cup final...Way up!
If last year's edition of the Super Cup final 'tun up', then this year it 'tun way up'. The highly anticipated mega-clash between St George's College and Jamaica College lived up to its expectation. It...
View ArticleWow! I can vote!
Dear Editor, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller gave St Bess her best. It was my first-ever political meeting. I witnessed a downpour of orange-clad People's National Party supporters in Black River...
View ArticleThis is not the 70s; leave Holness's house alone
Dear Editor, One day, in 1976, I stopped at the traffic lights on East Street. Almost immediately, a spanking new Mercedes Benz pulled up beside my Datsun. I was in the process of admiring it when I...
View Article'Not in the interest of national security?' Says who?
Dear Editor, Over the past few weeks the strength of Jamaica's democracy has undergone some testing. This tends to happen more at election time when the pressure is on our elected representatives,...
View ArticleSenator Johnson Smith's plan still needs work
Dear Editor, Having been in the public education system for over 25 years I listened to the Jamaica Labour Party's proposal for the removal of educational fees with interest, and waited to see what...
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