We need bipartisan arrest of crime
Dear Editor, Matters related to a nation's security will naturally evoke strong emotive responses, as poor national security threatens the lifeblood of every citizen, irrespective of his or her station...
View ArticleTessanne is our voice
Dear Editor, This weekend, I was at a birthday party for a Jamaican residing in the USA. It was fabulous....but I digress. Amidst the toasts and tributes and thank yous, the guest of honour took the...
View ArticleCaricom passport only opens the gate
Dear Editor, For a while, several Jamaicans have been complaining about various types of treatment that they received from several immigration agents in member states, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago...
View ArticleMake PTA attendance part of the child's term grade
Dear Editor, I will continue to beg and plead with our Government to put measures in place to get parents to play their role in the development and continued care of their children. Along with the...
View ArticleWhere's the solution, JFJ
Dear Editor, Jamaica for Justice's (JFJ) call for the resignation of the police commissioner seems premised on his failure to contain the rate of murder and the extra-judicial killings. In recent...
View ArticleNow it seems we're making bullets
Dear Editor, The recent seizure of two bullet-making machines and over 3,000 warheads at Kingston Wharf is extremely frightening and disconcerting. This find reinforces the widely held belief that the...
View ArticleStrong and swift response in the face of silence
Dear Editor, I envy Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar's defence of her country's official as one that should be exemplified by our very own prime minister and government...
View ArticleWWWTW?
Dear Editor, What's wrong with the world? WWWTW? Has the world gone mad?...bad? This is a mind-boggling question to each and everyone of you. Are you aware of the fact that the world in which we live...
View ArticleTimar's road to Rhodes
Dear Editor, I am sure both the attendant and the security guard must have thought I was crazy when I screamed loudly on seeing the lead stories in both of our daily newspapers. The announcement of...
View ArticleThe spirit of Caricom is not dead!
Dear Editor, I am a global missionary who principally serves in the Caribbean, having taken several teams with me from Jamaica and the USA to various islands. There are very few islands that I have not...
View ArticleCrime-fighting more than minister and commissioner
Dear Editor, In the early 1990s the West Indies Cricket Team, after almost two decades of dominance of international cricket, found itself struggling among the minnows of the game. After appointing and...
View ArticleDom Rep's actions need more than talk
Dear Editor, While we are beating the drums of war in respect of the rejection by Trinidad of some of our less than typical examples of Jamaica's finest citizens and a threat to boycott all imports...
View ArticleWe have bus cries while PM flies
Dear Editor, Well, "Sis P" really 'tun up the thing' on Jamaicans, everything is gone to the dogs and the people are getting 'hignorant'. I was surprised to walk into the Half-Way-Tree Transport Centre...
View ArticleFree movement or just visiting hours?
Dear Editor, Here we go again. The Treaty of Chaguaramas was not drafted by the untutored and the unlettered, but by the brightest and the best of the region's bureaucrats, intellectuals and...
View ArticleMinimum police response times should be standard procedure
Dear Editor, In the aftermath of last week's tragic incident in St Elizabeth, in which a teenager was allegedly killed by her child's father, the time has come for the police high command to establish...
View ArticleSave Pinnacle for RasTafari
Dear Editor, The planned eviction of I and I Rastafari family from Pinnacle -- the first self-sufficient Rastafari community on the island, located on lands purchased by Leonard P Howell -- seems to be...
View ArticleATL is truly unbeatable
This is an open Letter to Mr Adam Stewart: Dear Editor, As the yuletide season approaches it would be the norm for your organisation to receive several warm wishes. I hope that my correspondence...
View ArticleJustice for the people
Dear Editor The Honourable Mr Seymour Justice Panton, president of the Court of Appeal, continues to decolonise our justice system by taking the Court of Appeal, for the first time, to the people in...
View ArticleLame 'Buy Jamaican' campaign
Dear Editor, It is true what they say about propaganda; if it is repeated often enough, after a while, people will believe it, whether or not it is true. I was watching a Jamaica Information Service...
View ArticleCheers to Vauxhall High
Dear Editor, Timar Jackson, past student of non-traditional high school Vauxhall, has been selected as the Jamaican Rhodes scholar for the year 2014. This selection has certainly caught the nation off...
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