More pay doesn't mean more honesty
Dear Editor, At a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament a few weeks ago, where we were examining the accounts of the Ministry of the Education, I made comments in relation to the...
View ArticleA house divided
Dear Editor, We plead with the politicians of this country to grant us mercy, because if we remain on this course anarchy is the sure result. More than that, though, we plead for mercy from God...
View ArticleInadequate fire service in Westmoreland
Dear Editor, A few Senate sittings ago, Opposition Senator Robert Montague expressed concern about the unavailability of a complete register of places of amusement and the state of their emergency...
View ArticleDeal with the issue of disruptive students
Dear Editor, The stabbing death of a male student at Penwood High School by another male student last week has once again highlighted how unsafe our schools have become in recent times and raises the...
View ArticleLeaders shouldn't think of abandoning Ja
Dear Editor, When a member of the security forces is killed, all decent, law-abiding citizens are saddened. We may criticise the police for engaging in suspicious killings, but that doesn't negate our...
View ArticleMinister contradicting himself
Dear Editor, On Tuesday, April 9, 2013, the minister of agriculture, Roger Clarke, in his answers to questions I asked, stated in Parliament that the decline in the production of Irish potatoes in...
View ArticleLet the doctors run the wards
Dear Editor, The vox pop in your Sunday Observer (April 7, 2013) which asked 'Should nurses be paid more than doctors" has left us flabbergasted and dumbfounded at the ignorance of the Jamaican society...
View ArticlePay attention to threats
Dear Editor, They say that if you put a frog in a pot of boiling water it will immediately jump out to escape the danger. However, if you put that same frog into a pot that is filled with water at room...
View ArticleLead by example, PM
Dear Editor, I am a bit baffled by the current Government's unwillingness to follow the example of US President Obama and show their empathy with the people of Jamaica by cutting their salaries. What...
View ArticleKeep working, Minister Paulwell
Dear Editor, We must highlight when our nation's politicians do good. The recent handing over of 56 tablets to students from seven schools in the Eastern Kingston and Port Royal Constituency with the...
View ArticleJamaica will fly again
Dear Editor, The reduction in service by Caribbean Airlines (CAL) was, indeed, expected. Their crew members leave much to be desired and they poorly handle complaints. Furthermore, the introduction of...
View ArticleLove and thanks, Tony Laing
Dear Editor,"Love and thanks", the phrase made popular by cultural historian and musicologist, Keith Anthony "Tony" Laing, still resonates with many Jamaicans, more than six years after the programme...
View ArticleIs Bunting throwing in the towel?
Dear Editor, I was a bit taken aback when I saw National Security Minister Peter Bunting being rather emotional at a recent function, as highlighted on national television, confessing that he was very...
View ArticleGet a grip on scrap, Minister Hylton
I make reference to your article carried Friday, April 12, 2013 "Mark your metal, Hylton urges". This is not the answer to the problems associated with the restarted scrap metal industry. To begin...
View ArticleOf a PM's persistent silence
Dear Editor, Exactly one year ago, at the centre of the 'Flag Controversy', a minister of the ruling party stated unequivocally that "an error" was made, and it was indeed regretted. The minister...
View ArticleReview concessionary loans tax for workers
Dear Editor, The Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) is once again urging the Government to amend legislation concerning the rate of interest workers in the financial sector pay on concessionary...
View ArticleShuffle the Cabinet, PM
Dear Editor, Open letter to the Prime Minister: Cabinet reshuffles have the potential to create the impression of a new start; but if meaningful change is not forthcoming, sooner rather than later the...
View ArticleHonourable means honourable
Dear Editor, The debate on the "shops of Spaldings" is not complete unless we revisit the fundamental principle of Westminster Government which established the tradition and custom of referring to a...
View ArticleLaing's contribution to Liberty
Dear Editor, Keith Anthony 'Tony' Laing was one of the founding members of the Friends of Liberty Hall in the late 1990s. He was a repository of many tales about the once vibrant Liberty Hall, from the...
View ArticleDon't flush the tissue issue
Dear Editor, I notice that absolutely nothing has been said by our human rights groups about this issue of the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) withholding information from the Jamaican public about...
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