Identity: Gender, sexual, genus
Dear Editor, While I am aware that how people feel about themselves is hugely important psychologically, it seems to me that in light of psychological maladies such as delusion, psychosis,neurosis,...
View ArticleMisguided views about the PNP and capitalism
Dear Editor, I feel compelled to respond to letter writer ‘PP’ who asked in the Daily Observer of May 12, 2016 whether the People’s National Party (PNP) will remain socialist or go capitalist? The...
View ArticlePlant other things on cane lands
Dear Editor, Sugar estates are good agricultural lands. When the acreage under sugar cane is significantly reduced pursuant to management evaluation, as is now happening, cannot even a part of the...
View ArticleJamaica is hostile to the self-employed
Dear Editor, As far as I can see, the new raft of so-called tax relief measures that the Government has announced for Pay As You Earn (PAYE) workers is just another proof that this is not a country for...
View ArticleLet’s fight all corruption
Dear Editor, Corruption in many different ways has been plaguing Jamaica for quite some time. It affects our everyday lives in ways that are not always very obvious. Have you ever seen a roadway...
View ArticleWhat did they expect Shaw to do?
Dear Editor, So what? They lied. Move on with your life. The country will be better off. I am willing to pay a little extra so they can save face. I am loyal like that. The taxi fare does not need to...
View ArticleExamining togetherness
Dear Editor, To assert that togetherness is what society needs might sound cliché. To say that we need Jesus might seem impractical. To say that we need more stringent and punitive laws might be...
View ArticleBehind the Labour Day veil
Dear Editor, Many of us over the years are quite familiar with the popular maxim, “Bread cast upon the water will return to sustain and strengthen the man or woman for that matter who is rendering more...
View ArticleAbolish OUR and gas issues
Dear Editor, I am of the opinion that the Office of Utilities Regulations (OUR) serves no useful purpose, is inefficient, and should be dismantled forthwith by the Government. All too frequently we...
View ArticleReplace Caricom!
Dear Editor, I am proudly and unashamedly a regionalist. I see it as a practical answer to many of our individual problems as nations, as well as a coming together of family as it were. However, I am...
View ArticleThe wonderful, horrible truth
Dear Editor, “If the only truth a man knows is his own truth, then he knows nothing.” Beloved, I was fully awake at 1:30 am, panting, anticipating, the beckoning I knew was to come. For some time now I...
View ArticleHow are the youth to get work experience?
Dear Editor, Our children are tomorrow’s future, or so they say. Yet, day in day out we find many situations of unwilling individuals who wouldn’t spare a second to invest in this future. It is quite...
View ArticleReally, Dr Phillips?
Dear Editor, If Dr Peter Phillips, the recently dethroned minister of finance, wants us to take him seriously, he should cease to be concerned about our sliding dollar. For never have we seen our...
View ArticleSuicide is everybody’s business
Dear Editor, These past few weeks have been very sad in Jamaica’s history. We’ve had four suicides in approximately one month. There was the second-form student on April 25; the father of the...
View ArticleDealing with the ‘monsters and beasts’
Dear Editor, Children need protection from predators. However, in the vast number of reports I see no inclination to finding out why people become predators in the first place. They are called...
View ArticlePromise kept; now for accountability and collaboration
Dear Editor, The recently tabled budget given by the newly formed Government has given me much cause for concern and has me out here in the diaspora asking the question of: What do our people really...
View ArticlePine peeling and lateral thinking
Dear Editor, There is a video on YouTube with a man peeling a pine from the inside. It has gone viral. When he was finished the skin was intact but the meat of the pine fell out. Never in my lifetime...
View ArticleIntervene before Phillips gets six-love
Dear Editor, After listening to Dr Peter Phillips’ budget presentation I have formed the opinion that an intervention is needed, for his own good. He continues to spew the same negative rhetoric that...
View ArticleWhy are children exposed to this manual?
Dear Editor, During the tenure of the previous Government, a manual entitled ‘UNICEF Teacher Training Manual — Places of Safety Curriculum Guide’ was developed. A section of the manual is entitled ‘Sex...
View ArticleThis matter of reserve judgements
Dear Editor, I recently had cause to do some research into the matter of reserve judgements as they apply to common law jurisdictions that include the UK, the USA and Canada. I found it astonishing...
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