Jamaica 50, now what?
Dear Editor, Many buildings are still draped in our national colours, but in true Jamaican style, we've already moved on. The 50th anniversary of our Independence was nothing more than another holiday....
View ArticleEuthanasia, an abuse against life
Dear Editor, In 2002, Belgium's lawmakers ushered in a law on euthanasia. A law incited by Holland. In both countries the process was controversial due to the opposition that it had to endure....
View ArticleProtect the Jamaican species
Dear Editor, Based on the information on the Department of Statistics' website, Jamaica's birth rate in 2006 was 17.37 per 1,000 and in 2011 15.23 per 1,000 people in the population. This data is...
View Article'Iron Dog' is a super man
Dear Editor, Well, he may not have won the fight. He may not have lived up to the expectation he influenced so many boxing fans to develop, but one thing is for sure: Miguel Haye's bark has driven lots...
View ArticleIndependence for Portland
Dear Editor, In response to a letter entitled "Portland ostracised", which was published in the Jamaica Observer of Thursday, April 25, I am proposing that we Portlanders start thinking seriously of...
View ArticleProtect the sun-lights
Dear Editor, I wish to publicly condemn the recent theft of the 53 batteries from the solar-lighting system along the Highway 2000 corridor. These solar-powered lights were the latest, state-of-the-art...
View ArticlePeople Power — A People Powerless
Dear Editor, With the decision by the People's National Party (PNP) Government to retain embattled Member of Parliament Richard Azan in his post as junior minister in the Ministry of Transport, Works...
View ArticleGive Eldemire is due
Dear Editor, The position being taken by Mayor Harris of Montego Bay is based on treatment of Dr Herbert Eldemire (now deceased), former minister of health in the Government of the 1960's, as a...
View ArticleTablets in Parliament?
Dear Editor, When I read about the tablets being given to sitting parliamentarians by the minister of science, technology, energy, and mining, I was a bit confused. Perhaps the minister was dispensing...
View ArticleThe value of the Multi-modal Transport Hub
Dear Editor, I noted your editorial last Thursday regarding tourists from China, which, coincidentally, could have been extended to the Far East in general, and Africa. Indeed, this was a part of the...
View ArticleRenewable energy: Do we have the will?
Dear Editor, With over 90 per cent of all energy used in Jamaica derived from imported oil, the country is left susceptible and vulnerable to the variation of world oil prices, which seem to be always...
View ArticleThank you all
Dear Editor, I am grateful for the privilege and opportunity you afforded me to use this medium to highlight my story in the Sunday Observer of April 14. The story brought back memories of the accident...
View ArticleCall him Chris 'Machine Gun' Gayle
Dear Editor, We have seen in the Bible that at times people and places were given special names. For example, in the Book of Genesis, Chapter 32, when Jacob wrestled with the angel, his name was...
View ArticleThatcher 101
Dear Editor, I was one year old when the flamboyant character of Margaret Thatcher left the House of Commons in 1992. I first came across the name Thatcher in an 'A' Level Literature tutorial in 2007....
View ArticleEuthanasia balanced
Dear Editor, I write in reference to an article published in the Jamaica Observer of April 26, 2013, entitled 'Euthanasia, an abuse against life'. I am deeply appalled at the era in which we live and...
View ArticleWhat is in the best interest of the child?
Dear Editor, A society can be measured by the way it treats its most vulnerable. The three groups that are most vulnerable in any society are: the elderly and infirm, the young and the mentally ill....
View ArticleSeparate wheat from tares
Dear Editor, We must stop relaxing or abandoning our moral standards and ethical principles in order to please different sets of people who are hell-bent on having their own way, while expecting others...
View ArticleTime for fixed traffic fines
Dear Editor, It is my considered opinion that the existing provisions giving the police the power of imposing fine and exercising discretion in this connection is absolutely unconstitutional. And by...
View ArticleWhat about us in the basic schools?
Dear Editor, It is with great dissapointment that I write this letter on behalf of myself and the many basic school teachers in Jamaica. On Thursday, April 25, 2013 most teachers were not paid their...
View ArticleWhere's the common in Commonwealth?
Dear Editor, How is it that two foreign ministers from two English-speaking countries can take almost diametrically opposed positions regarding Sri Lanka's selection to host the CHOGM in November?...
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