On the road to a self-regulated press
Dear Editor, The presentation in the Senate by information minister, Sandrea Falconer, last week on a Bill entitled, 'An Act to Repeal the Defamation Act and Libel and Slander Act', also known as the...
View ArticleTime for the director general to fly away
Dear Editor, It's time for the director general of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority to be removed from office. I am, however, bracing to hear that "everybady 'affi eat a food". Be that as it may,...
View ArticleResponsible gambling is the mission
Dear Editor, This week, July 7-13, 2013, is being recognised as Responsible Gaming/Gambling Awareness Week; the first of its kind in Jamaica and perhaps the Caribbean. RISE Life Management Services,...
View ArticleUtmost hypocrisy , J-FLAG
Dear Editor, I read with interest your news report on 6th July, 2013 in which Karyl Walker reported on a second eviction of some reputed homosexuals at a Dewsbury Avenue location. My interest was...
View ArticleGay vs Happy
Dear Editor, I write not to disagree with the content of Mr Robert Howell's letter printed in the Observer on Saturday, July 6, 2013 on the recent Millsborough Avenue happenings. In fact, I applaud Mr...
View ArticleMore must be done for children in State care
Dear Editor, Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) and the Lift Up Not Lock up campaign welcome the news from National Security Minister Peter Bunting and Commissioner of Corrections Jevene Bent that all girls...
View ArticleSize doesn't matter
Dear Editor, Are we emphasising the size of Jamaica as a cover-up for our serious crime rate? Because, whenever we open our mouths and talk about the staggering crime problem and the senseless and...
View ArticleStop sitting on your blessed assurances, pastors
Dear Editor, I am writing in regards the emboldened homosexual groups that are seeking to dominate this country. Let me first say that their intent is malicious and destructive, to say the least. From...
View ArticleGraciously step aside, Your Majesty
Dear Editor, AN OPEN LETTER TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN In response to your letter suggesting that I direct my request to remove you as Head of State to the Government of Jamaica, I must hereby inform you...
View ArticleWill history repeat itself
Dear Editor, One of my disappointment with the administration of United States of America President Barak Obama and his western allies is that they seem not to have a sense of history, or are prepared...
View ArticleThe indignity that is the toll
Dear Editor, As the toll road operators strip away the last of our meagre earnings, could this be done in a way that provides its users with proper vehicle assessment facilities and better customer...
View ArticlePolice under attack
Dear Editor, A number of individuals and organisations have used the recent Court decision by Mr Justice Batts as a beating stick to hammer the police and by extension Commissioner Owen Ellington. We...
View ArticleA zoo we can be proud of... almost
Dear Editor, Some months ago I wrote a letter (published in another newspaper) of criticism and concern regarding the way in which some of the animals at Hope Zoo were apparently being kept and...
View ArticleJA losing out from horse exodus
Dear Editor, Horse racing has been around almost from the creation of mankind. Caymanas Park, Jamaica's only horse racing track, has been in operation since 1959. However, all is not well with the...
View ArticleMore career guidance needed
Dear Editor, There are too many students exiting our Jamaican high schools as good-for-nothings. There is urgent need for curriculum reform to establish a general high school curriculum. This...
View ArticleJustice Batts didn’t bar stop and search
Dear Editor, The recent judgement by His Lordship Mr Justice David Batts has been generating a healthy debate on the issues of the powers of the police to stop motor vehicles and search them as well as...
View Article'Star Boy' at it again
Dear Editor, I have been following the ATL pension fraud case very closely and I am appalled at the manner that legal counsel for the defence conduct themselves. I am referring particularly to KD...
View ArticleWatch your speech, JLP
Dear Editor, Opposition Leader Andrew Holness and party Chairman Robert Montague are talking nonsense when they say that the core value of the JLP is the empowerment of poor people, expressed in 1943...
View ArticleBan smoking
Dear Editor, I find the decision by the minister to ban smoking in public places laughable. Don't misunderstanding me, the thinking is right, but the implementation is where you will find the problem....
View ArticleChildren are mere products of their environment
Dear Editor, Children live what they learn and learn what they live - Dorothy Law Nolte This outlines the different traits that children pick up from those around them. A few months ago, a ward of the...
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