Startime was just awesome!
I would like to commend Michael Barnett, his team, and the many sponsors of Startime for putting on an awesome show last Saturday, January 9, 2016. Words cannot explain how tremendous the show was....
View ArticleTourism is everybody’s business
Dear Editor, Jamaica’s tourism industry is experiencing growth with far-reaching positive effects on the people. We must do all we can to promote and preserve the excellent work of those within this...
View ArticleGayle in the scheme of things
Dear Editor, I might be a little late, and my pebbles may cause nary a ripple in the lake of public opinion, but the Chris Gayle issue weighs heavily on my mind. An international sporting star, a...
View ArticlePNP disintegrating, JLP strengthening!
Dear Editor, For the past few weeks there have been several squabbles in the ruling People’s National Party (PNP). There have been continuing tensions in St Elizabeth North Eastern, Trelawny Northern,...
View ArticlePNP’s carnival of infighting
Dear Editor, One cannot help but observe, with interest, the developments of late in the political arena as Jamaica eagerly awaits the announcement of what is perhaps the most highly anticipated and...
View ArticleHow many months to prepare one’s financial records?
Dear Editor, Opposition Leader Andrew Holness made an announcement December 6, 2015 that he would release his financial and health records and after a month of waiting we finally have a date, March 31....
View ArticleDeal with the bad gas sufferers!
Dear Editor, It is with deep concern that I write to express my dissatisfaction with the situation of the so-called “bad gas” fiasco affecting motorists at this time. Due to the fact that a committee...
View ArticleA beautiful woman & wars of nations
Dear Editor, On behalf of Chris Gayle and the rest of the male species, I offer my apologies to Mel McLaughlin, the white Australian sports journalist who was asked out for a post-game drink by Gayle...
View Article(No) Signs of the times — get with it
Dear Editor, It seems that from time immemorial the people responsible for public signs in Jamaica have taken perverse pleasure in discombobulating the travelling public. If not, how then do we explain...
View ArticlePNP does love the poor
Dear Editor, Andrew Holness’s statement lamenting that the Simpson Miller Administration is guilty of “swelling the ranks of the poor” could be seen as him being duplicitous, at least, or delusional at...
View ArticleRespect to Evon Redman
Dear Editor, Evon Redman is a long-time and eminently qualified member of the People’s National Party nationally and in North East St Elizabeth. A St Bess-born businessperson, he has been intimately...
View ArticleJamaica needs leaders who will think big!
Dear Editor, Think big! That’s what Jamaica needs, and the only way for us to dig ourselves out of this desperate situation we’ve found ourselves in is for us to focus on new and innovative ways of...
View ArticleI too cry for the state of West Indies cricket
Dear Editor, The West Indies cricket team should stop playing for awhile, regroup and resume. As it now stands, they have become very uncompetitive. For example, in Australia where they are currently...
View ArticleJustice burns while Jamaican society fiddles
Dear Editor, Politicians on both sides are busy falling over each other in their efforts to demonstrate who loves “poor people” more. While this is going on the citizens of this country are left...
View Article‘De-bush’ your lots, or else!
Dear Editor, It has come to my attention that de-bushing of vacant lots has been a major problem for many residents in Jamaica. In light of this, I do believe that it is quite unfortunate that any...
View ArticleAn Opposition at work!
Dear Editor, The Jamaica Labour Party has provided political leadership on an important national issue that was taken for granted by the People’s National Party (PNP). The Minister of Science,...
View ArticlePraise Dr Notice
Dear Editor, I was engrossed by horror when I read Dr Raymoth Notice’s chilling account of the day that he almost lost his life at the hands of “armed hoodlums”. According to Dr Notice, he believes...
View ArticleLook in your own your yard!
Dear Editor, On Friday, January 15, 2016, a young lady from the Ministry of Health stopped by my residence to inspect the yard for containers holding water that could be possible breeding areas for...
View ArticlePNP will still win St Elizabeth NE
Dear Editor, There may be some who believe that the squabble involving the supporters of the sitting member of parliament for St Elizabeth North Eastern Raymond Pryce and his replacement may mean that...
View ArticleThe second coming...
Dear Editor, The first coming of CHIKV was devastating for me and my four elderly friends who suffered severely, and not in silence, for more than a year. Our unpatented concoction of guinea hen weed,...
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