Positives not hard to find in Windies cricket; unity is!
Dear Editor, I’d like Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo, Andre Russell, Keiron Pollard, Devon Smith, Shivran Narine, and maybe Darren Sammy to jump on a plane and wait at Tullamarine Airport, Australia I’d...
View ArticleNo money unaccounted for under Holness’s watch
Dear Editor, I clearly understand why the People’s National Party (PNP) is uncomfortable with Opposition Leader Andrew Holness building his mansion. The PNP doesn’t want anyone to have anything. The...
View ArticleHolness may well be what Jamaica needs
Dear Editor, I was browsing through the social media page of Opposition Leader Andrew Holness, and I must admit that I was very surprised to note that on the birthdays of former Prime Minister Michael...
View ArticleVaz sending the wrong ‘Vybz’
I am not sure how many people have had the frightening realisation that I have had in regard to the Dwayne Vaz imbroglio. Vaz is a young man (age 33, I think) who has only recently been elected to...
View ArticleDwayne Vaz’s ‘baby brain’ speech
Dear Editor, Dwayne Vaz’s shocking comments at a PNP rally a few days ago, with instructions of “loading” and “run in on” the opponents, based on lyrics from dancehall great Vybz Kartel song titled Weh...
View ArticleTomlinson is one brave man
Dear Editor, Maurice Tomlinson is on a mission to change our country’s laws as they relate to buggery and same-sex marriage. Recently, he took the State to court to have some of these laws changed,...
View ArticleChallenging the status quo has consequences
I write in response to an article written by Garfield Higgins entitled, ‘It’s the youth who must agitate to change the status quo’ published in the The Agenda of the Sunday Observer of the December 6,...
View ArticleKingston a creative city long ago
Dear Editor, It is wonderful news that Kingston has been designated “a creative city of music” by UNESCO, the result of a strategic partnership between groups such as the Tourism Enhancement Fund which...
View ArticleWhy scold Vaz and disregard the greater problem?
Dear Editor, Young Dwayne Vaz has been caught in a hail of public backlash which continues to saturate the news and other various media platforms. This comes after he publicly requested and tacitly...
View ArticleJuliet Holness, a miracle worker
Dear Editor, Juliet Holness, the wife of Opposition Leader Andrew Holness, in a recent interview, reportedly said that she can spend $20 and make it look like $20 million dollars. She is a miracle...
View ArticleHave the police been setting up themselves?
Dear Editor, Recently I heard one of the deputy commissioners of police (DCP) on one of the morning radio programmes discussing the high incidence of crime plaguing the country. The DCP told the...
View ArticleA big thank you
Dear Editor, Following the exciting announcement that ATL Automotive is set to become the regional master dealer of BMW and Mini in the Caribbean and the first-ever Jamaican automotive company to...
View ArticleWrong focus
Let me state categorically that while I hold no brief for Member of Parliament Dwayne Vaz’s despicable and indefensible utterance at that People’s National Party meeting, I would like to shift focus...
View ArticleToo stressed to be blessed
Dear Editor, Stress appears to be the chief mechanism by which the claim that “the love of money is the root of all evil” is validated. This is contrary to the prevalent impression that it is the...
View ArticleGod is in control!
Dear Editor, I just read the Jamaica Observer article on Marion Hall, aka Lady Saw, becoming what she always should have been: A God-fearing woman. I smiled and said, yes, Lord! Her voice is powerful...
View ArticlePaul Burke — the antithesis of King Midas
Dear Editor, A few of us read with comic relief an article published in the Sunday Observer of December 13, 2015. Unfortunately you didn’t publish the name of the author, so we don’t know who to...
View ArticleJLP forever opposing
Dear Editor, The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) continues to shower criticisms left, right and centre as it relates to how the Government is running the country. While I am well aware that opposing is a...
View Article2015: A bad year for Jamaica
Despite whatever the odds may be, 2015 has been a bad year for Jamaica because too many people have been killed and have lost their lives tragically. The figures revealed, so far, that some 1,140-odd...
View ArticleMore needed from PNP and Westmoreland MP Vaz
The National Democratic Movement commends the swift action of the new Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment-Brown in convening a meeting to get another apology from Westmoreland Member of Parliament (MP)...
View ArticlePassport office stress!
Dear Editor, The passport office is the most inefficient and disgraceful organisation that I have had the misfortune of having to deal with. On December 17, 2015, at approximately 12:30 pm, I...
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