PNP hypocrisy
Dear Editor, Once again the People's National Party (PNP) has proven to Jamaicans how hypocritical and unfair they are. I can't understand why the PNP is chastising spokesman on finance, Audley Shaw,...
View ArticleHolness not waiting on mansion 'in my Father's house'
In John 14: 2, Jesus said, "In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you," which effectively means that a house is much bigger than a...
View ArticleI'm waiting in unnecessary traffic
Dear Editor, Unfortunately, we live in a land where indiscipline permeates different areas of our daily life. The roads are one such area. Unless a group of policemen are visible, two lanes quickly...
View Article‘Bolt effect’ on tourism should trickle down
Dear Editor, According to a Jamaica Observer news story, Caribbean tourism is up – with more tourists travelling out of the United Kingdom, and Jamaica seeing a 62 per cent increase in arrivals from...
View ArticleTivoli operation — The novel
Dear Editor, If Marlon James can win the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings, it cannot be harder for someone to pen a book about a brief history of over 70 killings – the...
View ArticleDeclare your assets, Holness!
Dear Editor, When and will Andrew Holness declare his assets as promised? Thanks to a few folks who did not back off and insisted that this opulence was worth questioning, and not in keeping with the...
View ArticleOpen your eyes, JFF!
Dear Editor Look, Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), look! Open your eyes and see the beauty of the coffee. I really wonder if the JFF is following this news very carefully in regard to the signing of...
View ArticleManufacturing and agriculture the way for Ja
Dear Editor, If Jamaica is to become a manufacturing country once again, as it was in the 1950s through to the 1960s, it has to engage investors to visit our country in order to do an evaluation as to...
View ArticleLuther Buchanan stuck in ‘Dark Ages’
These politicians never cease to amaze me with the kind of nonsense that just keeps pouring forth from their mouths. What’s disconcerting is that those listening on either do not understand what is...
View ArticleOil prices won’t climb, BOJ
Dear Editor, I’m truly excited that the price of oil is now below US$40 per barrel on the global market, and hope it will remain that way in the foreseeable future. I was always of the opinion that...
View ArticleWe’re in shambles, but give to our children
Dear Editor, This country is in a shambles. I blame the politicians for they keep on appointing the same failures in a never-ending cascade of incompetent promotions; don’t wait for my list, make your...
View ArticleThe JLP always has a plan
Dear Editor, I refer to letter by Michelle Bradshaw in your publication of Friday, November 20, 2015 suggesting that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) does not have a development plan. I think that...
View ArticleHere’s a way to give Heroes’ Circle a facelift
Some years ago, the National Housing Trust (NHT) took the piece of land that was sandwiched between the NHT head office building and Knutsford Boulevard and transformed what was then a dust bowl into...
View ArticleKudos to Spain’s Hospiten Group
Dear Editor, A newspaper report recently was headlined ‘US$20-m hospital opens in Montego Bay’, which importantly in part stated that, since first being announced in March of last year, the project...
View ArticleThe power of one
Dear Editor, I watched with interest the CNN Heroes honouring 10 deserving recipients. These included an undercover doctor, a pastor-turned-produce grower, and a war veteran using hike therapy, among...
View ArticleFondling incident is about monitoring
Dear Editor, The parents upset about the fondling incident at a basic school have all right to be, as the teacher’s response to the incident leaves much to be desired. That children went “missing” long...
View ArticleHappy band of Comrades
Dear Editor, It is quite appropriate for us to accept that the People’s National Party (PNP) has been developed to look about the needs of individuals from all areas in the society. That is why once it...
View ArticleScrap them!
Dear Editor, It shameful, disgraceful and scandalous that under this People’s National Party Government, the country’s public health sector has massively deteriorated to the extent that many hospitals...
View ArticleSexual Harassment Bill — A deserving gift to our women and Michael Manley
Dear Editor, Let me congratulate Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller for tabling in the House of Representatives this week a Sexual Harassment Bill that seeks to outlaw sexual intimidation, coercion...
View ArticleKingston’s designation as Creative City a reason to hope
Dear Editor, The Sounds & Pressure Foundation is very pleased with the recent announcement that United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has designated Kingston as...
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