Shaw playing politics with pensions
Dear Editor, Pension reform is crucial to the success of not only Jamaica’ s economic reform programme, but also the country overall fiscal health. It is not prudent for the Government to be operating...
View ArticleTransfer pricing: Triumph of politics over good sense…as usual
Dear Editor, I thank the Jamaica Observer for explaining the dangers of the transfer pricing regime, which I knew very little of and, admittedly, still don’t know enough about. I eagerly await the...
View ArticleThere must be a moral standard
Dear Editor, I write in reference to a letter to the editor written by Pete Delisser, entitled ‘Don’t use religion to control others’. It was published on January 4, 2016 in response to articles...
View ArticleIn the interest of preserving history...
Dear Editor, The letter to the editor in the Jamaica Observer of Wednesday, January 6, 2016, headlined ‘Promise is a comfort to a fool’, states that the Bustamante Hospital for Children was built in...
View ArticleChris Gayle let down a nation
Dear Editor, Look up the words neanderthal and boorish and chances are you will find Chris Gayle’s actions fit squarely at both entries. However, I am well aware that many Jamaicans can never find...
View ArticleThis office called the political ombudsman...
Dear Editor, The newly appointed political ombudsman, Donna Parchment-Brown, has a mammoth task ahead to report on the numerous political complaints, among other conditions from the citizenry. The...
View ArticleOh, for a few more Imanis
Dear Editor, As a virgin to voting, I am overly impressed with the professionalism of Imani Duncan-Price’s campaign that is taking place in St Andrew East Rural. Let me first declare that I am not a...
View ArticleNo modern-day leaders
Transformational leadership is one of the key pillars necessary for successful society. Try as I might, I am unable to single out transformational leaders in the Jamaican society of today. Gone are the...
View ArticleGood financial management by the Simpson Miller Government
The current work of the Ministry of Finance, with tangible support from the Portia Simpson Miller-led Cabinet, has probably gone largely unnoticed and unappreciated by ordinary Jamaicans as a result of...
View ArticleShould Jamaica have a fixed election date?
Dear Editor, In light of the anticipated announcement of the general election date, one has to ask if it would make a difference if Jamaica had a fixed election date. I certainly believe it would...
View ArticleHypocritical church folk
You know what the problem with the church folks is? They are very hypocritical. They tend to dehumanise, criticise and demonise LGBT individuals and then use that to uplift themselves. I went to a...
View ArticleProf Fletcher disappoints
Dear Editor, I was disgusted by the comments made by Professor Horace Fletcher, the dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of the West Indies, Mona, over the ‘dead babies scandal’....
View ArticleJustice for Chris Gayle
I would like to take this oppertunity to enter the fray about the Jamaican cricketer Chris Gayle’s recent flirtations with a female sports reporter in Australia. After the match was completed in...
View ArticleAnswer him, Juliet!
Dear Editor, On January 3, 2016The Agenda magazine in the Sunday Observer carried a column written by Damion Crawford titled ‘Juliet Holness incorrect in all aspects’. It has been over a week since...
View ArticleNo to a sovereign Maroon state
During the recently held Maroon celebrations commemorating the signing of the peace treaty with and “victory” over the British, the leader of Jamaica’s Maroons was reported as saying that he plans to...
View Article1,2,3...Let’s do it for 2016
As we have justed started the leap year of 2016, many of us are unsure of what it holds for us, but we remain optimistic and, therefore, hopeful. I recall the start of 2015 when all I heard and read...
View ArticleIt’s the PM’s right! Leave her alone!
I read in a recent newspaper article that members of the Opposition party are complaining that the Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is dawdling with the election date. For anyone to have decided to...
View ArticleIntelligence in cricket
While the sexual harassment/gender aspects of the Chris Gayle controversy are being ventilated it may be appropriate, in the light of your recent editorial about the future of West Indies cricket, to...
View ArticleEducation is too important to be neglected
Education is an undeniable right for every single person, and it goes without saying that education has a positive effect on all human life. Marcus Garvey said: “A reading man and woman is a ready man...
View ArticleFarm workers’ remittance enhancing rural economies
Dear Editor, The moot talk of economic success based on our lack of productivity and export challenges seems to be on most people’s discussion agenda. And in these discourses we always give the...
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