What is being done with our taxes, Prime Minister?
Dear Editor, A few weeks ago I suggested that the Government should not raise taxes on us until they have given us a proper accounting for the waste and bad management of the taxes that they currently...
View ArticleTeddy McCook was an extraordinary man
Dear Editor, With the passing of Neville 'Teddy' McCook, much has been and will be written and voiced in recounting and praising his extraordinary achievements and legacy per se. But largely unknown to...
View ArticleDigicel and Special Olympics
Dear Editor, It warms my heart to see that with all the excitement of new headquarters and other corporate businesses and events, Digicel is still sticking with Special Olympics. This is a very...
View ArticleUsing music to grow plants works
Dear Editor, I must applaud the Jamaica Observer for that article by Nadine Wilson in your edition of Sunday, February 10, regarding Dr Anderson's introduction of the new science of using high and/or...
View ArticleDowntown back in business
Dear Editor, I have been living and working in the downtown Kingston area for most of my life. A lot of people say negative things about downtown, like it is not safe, or people will rob you if you go...
View ArticleGays and crime in Jamaica
Dear Editor, I was appalled at seeing the headlines "Gays wreak havoc" in South East St Andrew, and reports also that a person was killed, and properties were damaged by fire by the same persons. The...
View ArticlePoliticians have abused the J'can people
Dear Editor, Whenever I hear our politicians use the phrase 'the Jamaican people', my heart cringes, as the terminology is bereft of identity and innate possibility. Over the past four decades, the...
View ArticleCrime in Mandeville
Dear Editor, Has Mandeville, once the Mecca in terms of Jamaican towns, gone to the dogs? I am not asking the question simply because our car was broken into the night we spent there recently, or the...
View ArticleNew taxes will increase crime
Dear Editor, As an aura of success floods the thoughts of Jamaicans, we may become blind to the uncertainty which still pervades due to the upsurge in criminality. We all must bask in the hooray of the...
View ArticleWe don't need any more loans
Dear Editor, I'm really unhappy about the Government taking money from the National Housing Trust. I hope that Andrew Holness will follow through on his comment that he thinks it is illegal. There are...
View ArticleRemembering Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Dear Editor, It is most heart-warming during this Black History Month to see so many people happy at the ascendancy of a black man to the presidency of the United States of America for the second time...
View ArticleMissing Jimmy Moss-Solomon's columns
Dear Editor, It is with great regret that I note that the Sunday Observer no longer carries in The Agenda section the opinions of Mr James Moss-Solomon. I have felt this absence most sharply over the...
View ArticleWhy open my mail?
Dear Editor, Valentine's Day just passed and it was then that I realised that the country is really broke and needs to be fixed. My son, who is six years old, decided to send me a greeting card just to...
View ArticleEngage CASE on breadfruit flour idea
Dear Editor, While watching a programme on one of our local television stations recently, I heard the principal of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) saying that they have the...
View ArticleSystem does not reward honest people
Dear Editor, There are two reasons why our current economic situation has been dismal and will always be dismal, whether or not we get an IMF deal or find an abundance of rare metals in our red mud....
View ArticleBlack History Month is boring
Dear Editor, For the past few years now, my Februaries have become the most boring month of the year. Everywhere I turn, I see silly "celebrations" of my "blackness". Why on this Earth do we black...
View ArticleWhat 'Safer Sex Week' should mean to Jamaicans
Dear Editor, How many persons are aware that there is 'Safer Sex Week'? Many were caught up in various activities as they celebrated Valentine's Day, but I believe that greater emphasis should be...
View ArticleWhat have we become?
Dear Editor, A few evenings ago, as many Jamaicans watched the nightly news, they saw a woman proudly announced that she "used to Sista P hungry" and that she "wi work wid Sista P hungry..." What have...
View ArticleNights of hell in New Kingston
Dear Editor, Years ago when Emancipation Park was conceptualised, I was happy with the idea. Nowadays, I just wish that the park could be lifted and placed elsewhere. I was advised by park management...
View ArticlePoliticians need to work together
Amidst Jamaica's economic crisis is an overt case of leadership turmoil that most of us seem to overlook. Prime Minister and Mr Minister of Finance, despite our stagnant wages, we sceptically accept...
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