More than just politics
Dear Editor, I have listened to the discussion over the past few weeks and was shocked by the pronouncements of doom and gloom for Jamaica being touted by People’s National Party supporters because of...
View ArticleWould the wrongdoers walk free?
Dear Editor, Some days ago, there was a debate on TVJ’s All Angles pertaining to this question: Do you think the justice minister’s proposal to dismiss cases in the justice system for five years and...
View ArticleHold on there, Burke!
Dear Editor, In an interesting article by your columnist Michael Burke, headlined ‘Go Back to Norman Manley!’ and published on April 14, 2016, there is a least one error that I would like to correct at...
View ArticleTax relief package will result in increased economic activity
Dear Editor, The Gleaner seems to have swallowed the bait — hook, line and sinker — that the Government must not pursue the tax relief to the working poor of Jamaica. That Jamaica’s economic peril is...
View ArticleThe chequered menaces
Dear Editor, Like many Jamaicans I welcomed the initiative of placing identifying marks on route taxis. I thought this was a step to once and for all organise and standardise what appeared to be a...
View ArticleBoycotting is not the answer!
Dear Editor, Recently, a few more Jamaicans were returned to Jamaica on the next flight shortly after arriving in Trinidad and Tobago. According to their reports, they were treated inhumanely and...
View ArticleA biblical tax solution
Dear Editor, The game of political deception works well when a society lacks financial intelligence and a knowledge of good governance. The current preoccupation with a tax break for a select group of...
View ArticleLook about our own yard
Dear Editor, While the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago is receiving a walloping in the public domain for its poor treatment of some 150 Jamaicans who tried to visit the territory, even a boycott of...
View ArticleDebt overwhelming our households
Dear Editor, After careful review of the recently released Financial Stability Report 2015 published by the Bank of Jamaica, I found it rather alarming that household debt was growing at an exponential...
View ArticleFluidity that borders insanity
Dear Editor, The current trend of redefining norms to satisfy personal desire is turning out to be the basis for a new form of oligarchy. The protests and boycotts of North Carolina arguably reveal a...
View ArticleAndrew Holness Jamaica’s Next Top Model
Dear Editor, It appears that many Jamaicans are comfortable to see pictures of their prime minister trying on glasses, running around Mona Dam, or exercising on his bike in his office. I am not. Three...
View ArticleJLP doing as Governments before
Dear Editor, I refer to your Observer editorial of Sunday, April 17, 2016, titled ‘Make haste slowly in removing our diplomats’. The editorial, which essentially is the opinion of the newspaper,...
View ArticleWho’s monitoring convicted child sex offenders?
Dear Editor, The story published in the Observer newspaper on Friday, April 15, 2016, entitled ‘C’bean nationals nabbed in sex offenders clampdown’ should be of grave concern to us here in Jamaica. The...
View ArticleThanks to Mandeville Regional Hospital
Dear Editor, Two months ago, my 94-year-old uncle was admitted to Mandeville Regional Hospital to receive treatment for a very painful fractured femur. I would like to thank the entire medical staff of...
View ArticleWill the PNP remain socialist or go capitalist?
Dear Editor, From all indications, the capitalists within the People’s National Party (PNP) have seemingly started campaigning for the imminent leadership battle. Dr Omar Davies will sooner than later...
View ArticlePoor Jamaicans deserve decent housing too
Dear Editor, I am bitterly disappointed, and even angry, at a suggestion made this week that the only way that the National Housing Trust (NHT) can help poorer Jamaicans is through subsidised rents....
View ArticleWell done, Tony Cozier
Dear Editor,e are deeply saddened by the death of veteran journalist, cricket writer and West Indian Cricket commentator Tony Cozier. This is a shocker to us. It’s really hard to believe that such a...
View ArticleJamaica, repent and prepare for the coming of the Lord
Dear Editor, In the midst of international and local turmoil and upheaval, I share a message of hope and deliverance for all of God’s people. This message and mission were given to me in the form of a...
View ArticleCan someone say why?
Dear Editor, Why is it that at the 36th renewal of INSPORTS Primary Schools Athletics Championships so many of our young hopefuls had to compete barefooted? George Campbell Stony Hill oeg20@hotmail.com
View ArticleDeparture tax too high
Dear Editor, A Canadian asked me not long ago, why are Jamaican all-inclusive packages so expensive, at least relative to other destinations in the region? Although I was aware of this, I couldn’t...
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