Revise board selection process
Dear Editor, Recently, there has been much talk about the reported improprieties of the Factories Corporation of Jamaica board of management. As a way of increasing the quality of public sector board...
View ArticleCan’t shoot without practice
Dear Editor, The Jamaica Observer editorial of June 11, 2016, ‘Goals badly needed’ highlights the perennial problem of the Reggae Boyz, but it stopped short of examining why this has been so. It’s not...
View ArticleAl Miller flags US Embassy, praises AG
Dear Editor, I commend our Attorney General Marlene Malahoo Forte for her boldness in standing on a principled and moral position that also reflects the views of the majority of our people whom she and...
View ArticleMalahoo did a ‘Trump’
Dear Editor, Our learned Attorney General (AG) Marlene Malahoo Forte, QC, has managed once again to say something befitting US presidential candidate Donald Trump. Her now infamous tweet has caused...
View ArticleIs ‘not in my Cabinet’ still the agenda?
Dear Editor, The comments made by the Attorney General of Jamaica Marlene Malaloo Forte must not be tolerated by well-thinking Jamaicans. I believe her outburst incites and instigates hate on a...
View ArticleChurch bigotry at its worst
Dear Editor, In support of the misguided pronouncements of our attorney general’s opposition to the rainbow flag being flown by the US Embassy, both the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society and the...
View ArticleI disagree!
Dear Editor, The West Kingston Commission of Enquiry has ended and the commissioners have published their 900-page report. I have not read the full report but have heard the summaries of the report as...
View ArticleWell done, Colin Campbell, go for S St Andrew
Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate former managing director of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) Colin Campbell for the hard-working manner in which he performed throughout his tenure for close...
View ArticleMalahoo Forte’s tweet and Orlando atrocity separate issues
Dear Editor, No support can be given to the targeting of individuals based on religion, sexual orientation or politics. Marlene Malahoo Forte’s tweet is a separate matter from the atrocities which...
View ArticleA lesson in ‘don’ influence
Dear Editor, Did David Simmons, who chaired the commission of enquiry into the 2010 security forces operation in Tivoli Gardens, urge political leaders to commit to ending the allocation of...
View ArticleApologise, Madam Attorney General
Dear Editor, On Tuesday, June 14, I got home from work and went to read the Observer online, as I always do, when I do not get to read everything before I leave for work that morning. That is when I...
View ArticleCan someone explain the OUR’s logic?
Dear Editor, I have been in dialogue with the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) for over one year concerning an entity which is in clear violation of section 4A of the OUR Act. Section 4A states,...
View ArticleMuhammad Ali fought to end
Dear Editor, It is with a great deal of sadness that we mourn the loss of Muhammad Ali, who passed away on June 3, 2016 at the age of 74. This giant of a man was undoubtedly the greatest heavyweight...
View ArticleWhy accuse Church of bigotry?
Dear Editor, The Church is being characterised as bigot for upholding the same values which have brought us to this stage of civilisation. My question to those who promote and support homosexual...
View ArticleWe have a lot to apologise for
Dear Editor, Now that the very expensive Tivoli Commission of Enquiry report is in, there is one recommendation that, based on many years of past experience, some of us will find very hard to do: say...
View ArticleThe heat is on...
Dear Editor, Are mandatory declarations being bandied about and being recommended to become law a violation of one’s fundamental rights and freedoms?“For those kinds of details to be released to the...
View ArticleAntiguan PM ‘tun up’ anti-Jamaican feelings, frightens investors
Present and prospective investors in Antigua and Barbuda must be cringing and having second thoughts after the decision of the Gaston Browne Government to rescind the solemn agreement between Sandals,...
View ArticleWeed out and put in
Dear Editor, I agree with Robert Dalley who wrote an incisive letter to the editor, published in the Jamaica Observer, suggesting to Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie that he audit all parish...
View ArticleNo to safety at all costs
Dear Editor, Fear is an overpowering emotion, and right now the majority of Jamaicans are scared. But are we so afraid as to have the Government “infringe our freedoms, abrogate our rights or abridge...
View ArticleBefore they abridge and infringe on people’s rights...
Dear Editor, As crime and criminality threaten the very basic fabric of survival of Jamaica, I think the powers that be are fighting the wrong battle in their quest to curb both. Crime is a social,...
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