A nightmare waiting to happen
Dear Sir, I took my seven-year-old son to the Bustamante Hospital for Children at approximately 8:00 pm on Holy Thursday because of headache and fever. At 6:00 pm on Good Friday he was finally...
View ArticleLand tax mess
Dear Editor, I am a Portlander living in Canada who has a challenge with the recent increase in property taxes. Every once in a while governments increase taxes to obtain more revenue to service the...
View ArticleOne stop, driver
Dear Editor, Gone are the days when a conductor on the infamous Coaster buses would request that his passengers "five-up" and "rock ova pon di seat". As if that didn't already make for uncomfortable...
View ArticleBunting at the Wailing Wall
Dear Editor, In recent days the minister of national security has made statements that have caused much talk in the political and social arenas of Jamaica, and understandably so. But I want to...
View ArticleOur children cannot cross it
Dear Editor, Driving past a number of schools across the island I bemoan the state of the pedestrian crossings on which our children have to traverse on a daily basis. There are some schools without a...
View ArticleBy the hook or the crook, Amen
Dear Editor, Governments are not dysfunctional, they operate and deliver exactly what people ask of them. If the ends justify the means then use any means necessary in order to arrive at the end you...
View ArticleScoliosis no joke
Dear Editor, Earlier this month TVJ's popular morning programme Smile Jamaica had a rather informative interview with a group of visiting United Kingdom-based surgeons. The thoracic surgeons were on...
View ArticleTime for younger generation of leaders to emerge
Dear Editor, Many Jamaicans are ready to give up on their country, and I can well understand the frustration. Nevertheless, I am an eternal optimist and believe in the stimulating effect of renewal....
View ArticleFamily matters and youth development
Dear Editor, For years it has been argued that the Caribbean family structure is one that is "unstructured". This may be the result of us having diverse and always-emerging family patterns. The nuclear...
View ArticlePoliticians don't know meaning of service
Dear Editor, Sad to say, but the oft-repeated statement of many politicians that they are here to serve the people always evokes a disbelieving snort from me. Their recent action or should I say...
View ArticleBunting's first step to divine wisdom
Dear Editor, The critics of Minister Bunting for his statement about divine intervention for behavioural change are being unfair, if not dishonest. I do not believe he was saying he cannot manage the...
View ArticleGod's way not gay
Dear Editor, The Bible says we ought to "obey God rather than man". The issues concerning homosexuality, gay rights and marriage, have been given a voice, but whom do we obey? It is Almighty God who...
View ArticleMail fraud?
Dear Editor, I guess I should be accustomed by now to the various means by which the government extracts money from us, but I was totally taken aback by the dastardly process at the Half-Way-Tree Post...
View ArticleTa-ta, then, Lady Allen
Dear Editor, On my way to work I glimpsed the headline of the Friday Observer dated April 12, 2013, "I felt like leaving Jamaica." These words were uttered by Lady Allen, wife of our current Governor...
View ArticleIMF loan part of the problem, not solution
Dear Editor, News of the impending IMF deal is being greeted with a sense of relief, as if it were a solution to the country's economic problems, when in fact the loan is a continuation of the failed...
View ArticleHow could they?
Dear Editor, How can someone really look at an old man of 93 and have the heart and the nerve to kill him? He could be your grandfather! Some persons fail to accomplish anything worthwhile in life, and...
View ArticleAre homophobia and prostate cancer rise related?
Dear Editor, Jamaica is best known for tourism, jerked meat and also reggae music. In spite of boasting all these exotic things, Jamaica also boasts the highest incidence of prostate cancer in the...
View ArticleRise above the fray
Dear Editor, I have noted with much concern the current brouhaha surrounding the renaming of the Cornwall Regional Hospital to the Dr Herbert Eldemire Regional Hospital in the wake of a report in the...
View ArticleYour job is more than material for jokes, PM
Dear Editor, We live in a society where income levels are too low. How much does it cost a family of five to live and be nourished enough to learn, to have basic shelter and security? This is the...
View ArticlePortland ostracised
Dear Editor, I am writing you this letter so that the entire Jamaica can hear of the plight of those who reside in Portland. We have very little or no employment opportunities. We barely have much...
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