English first, JA!
Dear Editor, Lloyd B Smith's article in the Jamaica Observer of September 11, "H'emphasise your h'aitches", was a lot of nonsense. While patois remains and will always be an integral part of our...
View ArticleSchool year roadblocks unwise
Dear Editor, On September 3, 2012, I sat to listen to the midday news on what was the first day of the new school year. As I listened, the very first news item was that of roadblocks and protests as...
View ArticleEffective town planning?
Dear Editor, “Chacka-chacka” Mandeville, I hate bureaucracy. In fact, if I had the power, I would install large billboards all over Jamaica, saying "Bureaucracy is hazardous to your health". For if you...
View ArticlePM, you can't see the front from behind
Dear Editor, The other evening I was watching television when a seemingly agitated Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller appeared on the screen complaining bitterly that her leadership style was being...
View ArticleJamaica is fine, warts and all
Dear Editor, Mark Wignall's piece on Thursday, September 12, 2012 was one of his best. Wignall outlined a string of socio-economic statistics that confirmed beyond any doubt that Jamaica, compared to...
View ArticleSchools should not be like prisons
Dear Editor I recently saw several news stories in which students were turned away from school because of dress code violations. While I acknowledge the necessity of having a dress code, all rules...
View ArticlePortia is not Obama
Dear Editor, Portia will never inspire like Barack Obama, and neither will Andrew Holness, for that matter. Talking heads, journalists, opinion makers and others with access to media have been...
View ArticleWhat's the point?
Dear Editor, Having for the third year running paid to remove the leftover waste caused by the police burning confiscated drugs and other material on the beach at Ft Rocky, having written to the police...
View ArticleBeware, 'Mad Bob'
Dear Editor, I note with contempt the report of the utterances of President Mugabe of Zimbabwe regarding the men of Jamaica and our behaviour. I take offence to those comments by the president of a...
View ArticleGlorious music
Dear Editor, Last weekend I had the privilege and distinct pleasure of being able to attend the performance of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, in Kingston. It was...
View ArticleDon't dismiss Mugabe's views
Dear Editor, We do not readily take to foreigners speaking with any pretence to knowing the truth about our country or countrymen, more so when they use the proverbial broad brush. Yet we have to be...
View ArticleRevoke the OJ
Dear Editor, Usain Bolt, Michael Lee Chin, Fr Richard Ho Lung and Robert Mugabe can rightfully be placed in the same boat because they do have something special in common. They are among the recipients...
View ArticleWe want politicians' respect, not love
Dear Editor, The PNP message delivered to the people before the election was: more jobs, trust us to fix the economy, we have a special relationship with China and we can secure preferential loan...
View ArticleNo ordinary criminal killed Hewitt
Dear Editor, The murder of former Superintendent Anthony "Tony" Hewitt shows how determined some of those with criminal intent are to destroy our crime fighters and public servants who have not...
View ArticleGreg Christie becoming a crybaby
Dear Editor, I was extremely taken aback by Contractor General Greg Christie running for cover from the prime minister and the opposition leader, after being challenged in the courts. One has been led...
View ArticleMake police counselling mandatory
Dear Editor. I refer to your article of September 17, 2012 regarding the JCF chaplaincy needing at least 150 volunteers. I think counselling for police personnel should be made mandatory as they are...
View ArticleThe people suffer while leaders benefit
Dear Editor, Every new administration blames the previous one for destroying the country and then expects the Jamaican people to make more sacrifices. As far as I can remember we have always been...
View ArticlePM, hand over the reins if you can't hack it
Dear Editor, Along with many other Jamaicans, I very much looked forward to the PM's speech at the PNP Annual Conference last Sunday. Finally, we would get some indication of what she was thinking on...
View ArticleGood show!
Dear Editor, I thought Jean Lowrie-Chin's article in the Jamaica Observer of September 17 was quite good, especially the insightful comments regarding the "political establishment's" response to Damion...
View ArticleCultivate a mathematics culture
Dear Editor, Once more the nation languishes as the woeful performance in CSEC mathematics continues unabated. The anxiety, fear and unrealistic expectations that characterise the period of waiting for...
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