After today’s one-night stand....
Dear Editor, I lament the lack of humility which both of our political parties have displayed in this present election campaign. I attribute this primarily to the flawed impression and thinking that...
View Article‘Jack Mandora, mi no choose none’
Dear Editor, I write in the context of an article I read in the Observer last week, which proposed that even if one is unhappy with either of the parties vying for leadership, one should go out and...
View ArticleMore questions than answers
Dear Editor, This is arguably the nation’s most critical general election and there are more questions than answers. If the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) wins, will its tax threshold proposal derail the...
View ArticleTime for change
Dear Editor, Has your paper ever been puzzled by the terminal indecision for the life of a government, even when you profit from it? Have you ever known persons whose lives were discombobulated or...
View ArticleI’m politically free
Dear Editor, I am an uncommitted, non-tribal, non-partisan electorate, but certainly not apathetic or detached from the political process. However, this was never always the case because I grew in a...
View ArticleNo ‘victimisation’, Pearnel
Dear Editor, The National Water Commission (NWC) wishes to categorically refute allegations of political “victimisation” made by Pearnel Charles, as published in the Jamaica Observer of Wednesday,...
View ArticleVote I did...cane and all
Dear Editor, I arrived at the Mona High School at approximately 11:50 am yesterday, Election Day. I observed that the driving entrance was closed; however a pedestrian gate was opened so I had to park...
View ArticleJa, no problem: Too many of us don’t care
Dear Editor, I faced yesterday’s election with much anticipation. To my mind, for the first time in my lifetime Jamaicans approached a general election with more than the colours green and orange at...
View ArticleAccept the results in peace
Dear Editor, Jamaica is a country that is far from being election-worthy. It’s not worthy, neither can it be trusted with a general election, when it comes to peace, security and good behaviour....
View ArticleSurely not business as usual
Dear Editor It gives cause for hope that Andrew Holness, the leader of the successful Jamaica Labour Party in the general election, has declared that it will not be business as usual and that Jamaicans...
View ArticleRethink appointing Shaw as finance minister
Dear Editor, Prime Minister-designate Andrew Holness may feel some sense of obligation to appoint Audley Shaw as minister of finance — after all, he did commit to doing so if he were given the nod to...
View ArticleWhy the PNP lost
Dear Editor, Portia Simpson Miller is by far Jamaica’s most popular politician. However, her recent defeat at the polls suggests that voters are maturing. Leaders like Simpson Miller can no longer win...
View ArticleDid Portia feel Putin’s touch?
Dear Editor, On November 16, 2015, while the People’s National Party (PNP) was considering an early election, I wrote a letter to the editor offering the prescription ‘How to commit political suicide’...
View ArticleNew beginning
Dear Editor, A few days ago the people of this great nation were again given an opportunity to exercise their franchise at the polls. Interestingly, the then Government thought that they would be in...
View ArticleTax threshold relativity
Dear Editor, Einstein showed that everything is relative. In January 1980 the income tax threshold was $7,500. Adjusting for inflation that would equate to $1,362,000 today. Bruce Golding Former Prime...
View ArticleJLP’s unconvincing prosperity
Dear Editor, After being in the political wilderness for so long the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has returned with some half-hearted, premature and unconvincing promises. Its has come with a...
View ArticleSwing, voters swing!
Dear Editor, I read recently in a newspaper that the number of swing voters are on the increase, at least for now. I am happy to hear this. I ask just one thing, though, that swinging is done not...
View Article‘Benefits politics 101’
On the eve of the 2016 General Election there is a reported tightening in the polls. This according to most major news sources, as something seems to have stimulated the interest of voters to the point...
View ArticleAn Opposition at work
Dear Editor, A political opposition is not and should not be about winning a debate; embarrassing the party in power; measuring scandals; calling for resignations, commission of inquiries or court...
View ArticleEOJ must fix the uncertainty
Dear Editor, The Electoral of Office of Jamaica (EOJ) and the Electoral Advisory Committee (EAC) should meet urgently to arrive at a solution regarding the announcement of the winner of all general or...
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