Name them!
Dear Editor, The Government must make public the test results of gas being stored by marketing companies, including Petrojam. The results are now in the possession of the Government. Some of these...
View ArticleWhy does the Government make it so hard to give
Dear Editor, For the past 23 days [written Tuesday, December 29, 2015] I have been sitting in Jamaica waiting and waiting for my container filled with 114 bikes for the children of Jamaica, a...
View ArticleNew year, renewed hope and optimism
?Dear Editor, Many of us are overjoyed to see the end of 2015 as it was a year with numerous challenges. It was a devastating year in which Jamaicans have seen some of the most horrendous crimes...
View ArticleHello from the other side of IMF
I refer to letter by Aaron Spellman in your publication of Thursday, December 31, 2015 and wish to advise him that this is not the first time the People’s National Party has passed International...
View ArticleAre clean streets for 2016 too much to ask, Mayor Brown Burke?
Dear Editor, We the residents of Richmond Park would like to know if clean streets are too much to ask for in 2016. I see where the Mayor of Kingston Angela Brown Burke has a penchant for engaging in...
View ArticleUndernourishment and crime
Dear Editor, I am not sure that many people are aware of a vast body of ongoing research concerning poor nutrition and violent behaviour. There have been numerous studies on the matter, including one...
View ArticleCVM horsing around
Dear Editor, Racing fans have been suffering over the past year due to the grossly inadequate coverage of horse racing on CVM Television. Race day after race day there are a plethora of issues...
View ArticleGod bless Shaggy, Jamaica
Dear Editor, I believe it was the great philosopher Plato who said, “Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.” It is not often that we congratulate those who go...
View ArticleCall it expeditiously, Madam PM
The Daily Observer editorial of Monday, January, 4, 2016 wrote in part, “Now that the festivities associated with Christmas and the new year are over, the Government should place the holding of the...
View ArticlePM might as well become a
It dawned on me over the weekend that Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is either badly in need of advice or just needs to move on, for the sake of the country, and become a full-time comedienne....
View ArticleSigns of the time
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and its associates are clearly developing an uncomfortable trend that mirrors that of the 1980s, which was Jamaica’s most politically violent period. The trends are...
View ArticleRepresentation vs leadership
I have been asking questions about what elected members of parliament think their job description is, but an answer has not been forthcoming. I would love to hear from anyone who has an idea of what...
View ArticleLet’s find a happy medium to build Jamaica
This coming election will be the first time that I will be able to vote and so I have spent quite a bit of time trying to decipher the truth from the rhetoric. Unfortunately, I have become a political...
View ArticleCan’t build a nation without youth focus
Dear Editor, Attempting to build a nation without having its youth at the centre of all plans is like planting a non-fruit-bearing tree and expecting to get apples. That has been the approach of the...
View ArticlePromise is a comfort to a fool!
Dear Editor, In 2011 when the ruling People ‘s National Party (PNP) was campaigning for the general election they promised sincerely that, if they won the election, they would construct a children’s...
View ArticleReligion must never be used to control others
Dear Editor, There have been a series of columns in the Jamaica Observer recently by Helen Coley Nicholson, president of the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship, who argued that human rights come from God,...
View ArticleGayle’s public expression of libido
Dear Editor, Chris Gayle’s recent expressions of interest to a female reporter during an interview in Australia reflects a lack of sensitivity to where he was and who he is. This behaviour apparently...
View ArticleIt’s not electronic voting; just electronic ID’ing
Dear Editor, In response to a letter to the editor published in your newspaper entitled ‘Electronic voting will disenfranchise Jamaicans’, the Electoral Office of Jamaica wishes to clarify the...
View ArticleWe can do more for our cops
Dear Editor, There was a very good article by Observer staff reporter Kimberley Hibbert, titled ‘Don’t just trust God and leave yourselves careless’. In it the Church is saying that “Christians should...
View ArticleBreak the spell of the crude notion of masculinity
Dear Editor, The construction of Caribbean masculinity needs to be re-examined in light of the Chris Gayle incident involving female Australian journalist Mel McLaughlin. Gayle’s sexually coded...
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