No need for the HAJ
The losses incurred by the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) have provided the country with an opportunity to engage in a serious examination of that entity’s relevance. Earlier this month, HAJ Chairman...
View ArticleAre we ready for the Singaporean model to fight crime?
Dear Editor, Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding said once, “When we go into communities and dismantle the criminal organisations that are embedded there, we leave a huge space which, if not quickly...
View ArticleBan parrotfish by the hook or crook
Dear Editor, Our Jamaican waters are home to thousands of species of marine wildlife, several of which are concentrated amongst our popular tourist beaches. In particular, the multi-coloured tropical...
View ArticleCaricom is a farce
Dear Editor, We all welcome the move by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to invite Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to quell the tension between the two Caribbean states with their...
View ArticleKudos to JLP Gov’t for scrapping Negril breakwater project
Dear Editor, The decision by the Andrew Holness-led Administration to scrap the highly controversial billion-dollar Negril Breakwater Project is very commendable and demonstrates the fact that the...
View ArticleUS reaping the whirlwind
Dear Editor, Six police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were shot on Sunday, July 18, 2016. Three have so far died. And as I watched this unfolding news on CNN, I remembered that President Obama,...
View ArticleA prison visit which gave me pride
Dear Editor, As part of The Best Dressed Fun in the Son series of events, I visited our four prisons in the area: Spanish Town, Tamarind Farm, Fort Augusta, and Tower Street (General Penitentiary). I...
View ArticleA Rasta senator?
Dear Editor, Now that the Jamaica Labour Party is the Government of the day, they should make some constitutional changes which will allow an independent senator for people like the Rastafarians to...
View ArticleDo the right thing, TVJ!
I note with dismay Television Jamaica’s (TVJ) decision to ban Kingston College from the Schools’ Challenge Quiz competition for two years. I immediately asked, why? It seems brutally unfair to bar the...
View ArticleGovernment, Opposition should read Observer editorial
Dear Editor, The editorial in the Sunday Observer of July 17, 2016, titled ‘Caribbean, beware the South China Sea disputes’, is worthy of the careful attention of Prime Minister Andrew Holness, his...
View ArticleBlythe is a sacrificial lamb
Dear Editor, Politics can surely get interesting at times, can’t it? Now we hear that the leader of the People’s National Party (PNP), Portia Simpson Miller is going to be challenged for the party’s...
View ArticleWhere’s the Finsac report money, Audley?
Dear Editor, I remember Audley Shaw making a statement that under a Jamaica Labour Party Government he will provide the remainder of the funds to complete the Finsac Commission of Enquiry report from...
View ArticleWhat’s happening to building codes?
Dear Editor, The following is an open letter to the Clerk of the Houses of Parliament: I write to inquire about the status of the national building code and its passage into law. The code contains...
View ArticleSecuring our borders
Dear Editor, The escalating murder by the gun is of great concern and it needs to be addressed immediately. What seemed missing from the minister of national security’s plans, however, is the...
View ArticleWhy the ban on KC?
Dear Editor, I write regarding the injustice meted out to the Kingston College (KC) team after the conclusion of the recent Schools’ Challenge Quiz competition. I have never seen anything like this. In...
View ArticleWe need to be resocialised
Dear Editor, One cannot help but note with dismay the unabated destruction and carnage which continues to play out on our major thoroughfares. At literally halfway through the calendar year we have...
View ArticleTakeaway lesson: No ‘sacred cows’
Dear Editor, On a recent visit to England, two news items caught my interest and caused me to feel some jealousy regarding the manner in which UK authorities/leadership responded to each issue. The...
View ArticleLet’s trumpet the road safety message
Dear Editor, The Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS) wishes to commend Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who is also the chairman of the National Road Safety Council, for his...
View ArticlePerilous times ahead in the name of ‘rights’
Dear Editor, Some time ago I attended a panel discussion on human rights at The University of the West Indies in the Law Faculty. The purpose of the discussion was to introduce the idea of the setting...
View ArticleEnact national town planning strategy before third city
Dear Editor, I write in response to the directive issued by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to the Urban Development Corporation to create a third city. In this regard it is critical that a national...
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