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Dear Editor, Jamaica can be proud, of its advancements in its advocacy of and progression on women’s rights. This is no more evident than in the number of female candidates that are on display for both...
View ArticleI’d rather watch something on Black History Month
Dear Editor, The People’s National Party (PNP) is really wasting our time in this short campaign period, trying to rouse up argument into Andrew Holness’s finances. Seriously! Why are they trying to...
View ArticleThe PNP’s ‘con-ifesto’
Dear Editor, The ruling People’s National Party (PNP) wants us to believe that it is on a mission to create a Jamaica that will acquire First-World status. But if we are to go by its record in the last...
View ArticleWhat millennials really want
Dear Editor, Millennials, babies of the 1980s and early 90s, are now adults and ready to shape the political and economic world in which we live and operate. We lived through the mad rush leading up to...
View ArticleTo Mr/Ms Vote Seller:
Dear Editor, Dear vote sellers, take a good look at the person you’re selling your vote to and take a look good look of yourself. Where did he or she get the money from to buy your vote? Is it from the...
View ArticleVoter cards more than IDs, use them!
Dear Editor, For many Jamaicans, the voter registration card is just a form of national identification. As I am aware, there are three instruments of national identification in Jamaica: The Jamaican...
View ArticlePNP Progress: 1 step forward, 2 steps backward
Dear Editor, With just a week left to another general election here in our beautiful so-called ‘PNP country’, I wonder what is meant by the word ‘progress’; a word that the People’s National Party...
View ArticleSmear campaign failed, so Portia’s become Palin
Dear Editor, The smear campaign against the Leader of the Opposition Andrew Holness has backfired. It just hasn’t got any traction. In desperation, Paul Burke is ready to call it quits, but Delano...
View ArticleDebates need to be more than TV; need substance
Dear Editor, Much has been said and is still being said on the point of our two main political parties debating each other as a part of the political process leading up to the election. Most of the...
View ArticleI’m not satisfied, PNP
Dear Editor, I must express my utter disappointment in the prime minister and the People’s National Party (PNP) in my capacity as a citizen of Jamaica and an undecided voter. The question being tossed...
View ArticlePNP Manifesto puts Vision 2030 at risk
Dear Editor, I read the People’s National Party’s (PNP) manifesto/developmental plan 2016 thoroughly and I have a bit of developmental confusion which needs to be cleared in my head fundamentally. When...
View ArticleLaughs all around
Dear Editor, Even though I think I am old enough to know that a lot of these promises that are coming from both the People’s National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) are just talk, I...
View ArticleWe’ve come too far, sacrificed
Dear Editor, For the first time, we in Jamaica have solid economic management in every facet or fiscal situation; not growth at the expense of debt, jobless growth, or sporadic growth in GDP only. This...
View ArticleTax relief a good idea
Dear Editor, The JLP’s tax proposals are interesting, timely and necessary. The context in which they have been presented is important. The Simpson Miller Government, in concert with the International...
View ArticleBetter luck next time, JLP
Dear Editor, I consider myself a rare breed, a young person who has every intention to vote in the February 25 General Election. It will be my first time voting ever, and I’m proud to say that I...
View ArticleFocus on the issues
Dear Editor, As Jamaicans prepare for election 2016, whether it is the ruling People’s National Party (PNP) or the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) that forms the next Government, I hope that the...
View ArticleRefuse to be labelled green or orange, vote responsibly!
Dear Editor, Jamaica, land we love, is filled with ecstasy, anxiety and great expectancy as the country anticipates the general election on Thursday, February 25, 2016. I remember my first real...
View ArticleJust because The Economist says so?
Dear Editor, We have a tendency in this country to believe what foreigners say above the ideas our own people put forward. Here comes The Economist pronouncing on the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party’s...
View ArticleWe’ve come too far
Dear Editor, The Jamaica Umbrella Groups of Churches (JUGC) is deeply concerned about the number of incidents during this period of political campaigning, where guns were featured, resulting in the...
View ArticleTomorrow people will still be hungry
Dear Editor, The entire nation is in a frenzy as each party wants to win, but we can only have one winner and this evening we will all know the result. I must say, however, that this campaign was not...
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