Analogue TV time is running out
Dear Editor, For the most part, the Jamaican consumer is uneducated and misinformed about his/her rights. Added to this, our consumer protection agencies are lacklustre and short of resources, thus...
View ArticleReduce paper investments
Dear Editor, I encourage us all not to revert to becoming a nation of paper entrepreneurs. Too often we are caught in the cycle of investing in bonds, repos and other forms of paper instruments. Don't...
View ArticleA killer tax blow
Dear Editor, Successive governments seem to be in the business of giving today and taking back tomorrow. A forward step followed by a backward step results in net zero movement. More often than not,...
View ArticleWhy celebrate Black History Month?
Dear Editor, Almost into March, we can reflect on the successes and failures of this month -- one of which is the outpouring of supportive and unsupportive responses for Black History Month...
View ArticleWe missed a great opportunity
Dear Editor, There has been much dialogue on the topic of breadfruit flour in recent times, and I thought it necessary to enlighten those interested in the topic on the beginnings of this project. In...
View ArticleClamp down on stealing
Dear Editor, The government is starving for revenue and every chance it gets it hikes fees on the owners of motor vehicles and/or imposes more taxes on the overburdened taxpayers. Meanwhile, in a clime...
View ArticleWelcome plan to go easy on obeah
Dear Editor, As a historian who has spent several years researching the history of prosecutions for obeah in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean, I welcome Senators Lambert Brown and...
View ArticleHealth centre nightmare
Dear Editor, The need to build a proper health centre befitting human dignity for residents of Golden Spring and its environs in West Rural St Andrew long outdates the first formal request for funding...
View ArticleFrustrated by Digicel service
Dear Editor, I am frustrated by Digicel's treatment of us the customers, who for almost 12 years have kept their business afloat. It is a downright disgrace to see the Office of Utilities Regulation...
View ArticleUtter rubbish about God, church
Dear Editor, I am somewhat amazed at the continuous rants by Mr Michael Dingwall and Mr Hilaire Sobers against anything that bears any semblance of God or the church. The assertions by Mr Dingwall in...
View ArticleDeal with Germany
Dear Editor, This letter is directed to the government of Jamaica. If a Jamaican had burned that flag, what would you have done with him or her? Let's not answer that question here. What I suggest is...
View ArticleAn act of disrespect
Dear Editor, I would just like to speak on a burning issue. I find the Saturn commercial to be in poor taste. It is very disrespectful that our flag should be burnt and stomped on for a commercial...
View ArticleSupporting Obeah is disturbing
Dear Editor, As a Christian I am deeply disturbed that any well-thinking Jamaican, let alone our legislators Senators Lambert Brown and Tom Tavares-Finson, would think to introduce legislation to sink...
View ArticleGive youth a voice
Dear Editor, Jamaica continues to be a country that has a very youthful population who can contribute so much to national development, but how will this happen if the voices of youth are just swept...
View ArticleThank you, Jamaican Government!
Dear Editor, I want to congratulate the Government of Jamaica for deceiving the poor and vulnerable people. On the campaign trail, they told the nation that they can do better than the Jamaica Labour...
View ArticleWest Indian cricketers need help, not abuse
Dear Editor, Dr Rudi Webster is a renowned sports psychologist who knows a lot about West Indies cricket. Sometime last year, Dr Webster observed that the West Indies team often displayed "a fear of...
View ArticleHow much has NWC cost us?
Dear Editor, How can this country ever get out of debt with organisations like the National Water Commission around? I wonder how many billions they have cost us over the years by digging up every road...
View ArticleThe Church has not failed
Dear Editor, In recent times the Church has been under attack from those who do not understand what the institution is, do not want to understand, and those who are disobedient. God created the world...
View ArticleFocus on the young fathers too
Dear Editor, I empathise somewhat with Senator Kamina Johnson Smith who is advocating that young girls who become pregnant be given a second chance to complete their education. I think, however, that...
View ArticleHonour Everett Koop's memory
Dear Editor, The world has lost a sterling man in former United States Surgeon General C Everett Koop, a paediatric surgeon known for his anti-smoking campaigns. C Everett Koop was not afraid to take...
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