Sliding dollar, sliding future
Dear Editor, With the Jamaican currency now reaching a new low and trading over the $100 mark to US $1, one has to question the thinking behined haveing an International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement....
View ArticlePull up your socks, Sovereign
Dear Editor, A recent visit to the Sovereign Centre with friends was transformed into an embarrassing scenario when the electricity supply went. The power cut only affected the dining area. When we...
View ArticleLet the system work
Dear Editor, Many years ago, when I was a youngster in school, emphasis was placed on the phrase 'silence is golden'. They were used as part of our penmanship exercises and also used as punishment for...
View ArticleGive greater honour to teachers
Dear Editor, Teachers are nation builders and education is one of the solid foundations on which we will strive to build a great nation. Although the causes of the poor performance of pupils in the...
View ArticleDon't muddy the waters
Dear Editor, Your columnist, Mark Wignall, in his piece on Thursday, June 13, 2013 seeks to assess various aspects of the forthcoming commission of enquiry into the circumstances surrounding the...
View ArticleLet us Vision 2030
Dear Editor, The country has identified the year 2030 as the target year for Jamaica to attain First-World status. The theme associated with this vision is "Jamaica the place of choice to live, work,...
View ArticleWhere do the children play?
Dear Editor, When parents from the Mile Gully-Bethany area visit Kingston and see the play equipment in schools, many come away feeling that the Government of Jamaica has some special preference for...
View ArticleCreating Jamaica's national football identity
Dear Editor, Jamaica entered the football arena about 50 years ago and, to date, has failed to strategically develop a style of play for the national team. This island is blessed with its own unique...
View ArticleThis should never have happened
Dear Editor, Those around me said it would never happen. No, the teachers would not reward the behaviour of Doran Dixon and vote him in as the head of the Jamaica's Teachers' Association (JTA). Why?...
View ArticleMinister Hanna's hypocritical 'crime plan'
Dear Editor, Minister Lisa Hanna has expressed outrage at the brutal beheading of a four-year-old baby whose remains were later dumped in a sinkhole. Recently she was quoted in the Observer reiterating...
View ArticleGive more respect to the nation's business
Dear Editor, I support Phillip Paulwell's recommendation to his parliamentary colleagues for punctuality at meetings. However, I wish to extend the issue and chide our leaders in Government and the...
View ArticleDentists, tell people the truth about their mouths
Dear Editor, Although I had read with enthusiasm two articles by President-Elect Dr Jeffery W Meeks 'Dental law languishing' (The Daily Observer, Wednesday, November 14, 2012) and 'Dental registrar...
View ArticleMisplaced criticism
Dear Editor, Over the last few weeks, the Church has been lambasted as having "misplaced zeal" and being unfair and discriminatory in its recent focus on the buggery law. But curiously, why is it that...
View ArticleWell done, officers
Dear Editor, In read in the Observer that the police appeared to have used their persuasion to remove a group of happy settlers from a house on Millsborough Avenue. We are glad they did not have to...
View Article'Manchesterites' to the rescue
Dear Editor, With the Jamaican public being inundated, on a daily basis, with bad news via the media, I thought it only fitting to seek to bring some balance and highlight some of the good that still...
View ArticleThe power to stop and search
Dear Editor, All public servants, including the police, must exercise their duty in a reasonable manner because they were not employed to act unreasonably in dealing with the public. And so any act...
View ArticleThe high cost of energy
Dear Editor, The media and interested parties, especially members of Citizens United for the Reduction of Energy (CURE), missed an important reason for the high cost of energy that the Attorney General...
View ArticleGo seek a ruling, JFJ
Dear Editor, I need some education on this matter. I am confounded with the pronouncement coming from Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) and others who continue to spread what I think is propaganda: their...
View ArticleHomelessness not only a gay issue
Dear Editor, What took place in Millsborough recently with the alleged gays being evicted from a home they occupied, and the subsequent demolition of the house, is not just an issue of gays occupying a...
View ArticleThou shalt not issue reckless comments, Minister Hanna
Dear Editor, Abortion is the termination of pregnancy by the removal of a foetus or embryo prior to viability from the uterus. As a feminist for life and a pro-woman I find it very disappointing that...
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