Wake up, Sandrea
Dear Editor, Minister Sandrea Falconer is so out of touch with our youth. She seems to miss some simple truths. Many teen pregnancies are caused by boys of the same age. Also some youthful pregnancies...
View ArticleTeach family planning too
Dear Editor, Be a woman before you become a mother. Be a man before you become a father. Boys/men do not become pregnant. Two is better than too many. The above were slogans used by our family planning...
View ArticleHWT bus park revisited
Dear Editor, I usually take the JUTC buses to get around as I do not travel on minibuses or robot taxis. I particularly travel on the 32B route if I have to go anywhere in or near the HWT Transport...
View ArticleBack to Africa... for what?
Dear Editor, There are some among us, including Rastafarians and Garveyites, who believe that we Africans in the West should return to Africa. Now, while this call for repatriation may be popular with...
View ArticleNot so, Observer, and that cartoon was mischievous
Dear Editor, Most regrettably, the Jamaica Observer on Sunday, December 15 carried an entirely erroneous story from unidentified sources about an unnamed project implicating the National Water...
View ArticleJLP grasping at straws
Dear Editor, For the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party Andrew Holness to suggest that the reason for the present crime problem is because the then opposition People's National Party did not support an...
View ArticleWe want to hear about the trips, Madam PM
Dear Editor, Isn't it clear Carlton Davis and the prime minister are still taking Jamaican people for idiots? They failed to understand that some people were born at night, but not everyone was born...
View ArticleGas tax... Opposition quiet again
Dear Editor, There was a news item TVJ news of December 22, 2013 that stated that the Government was considering a new gas tax, which will increase the price to consumers by $18.00 - $24.00 per litre,...
View ArticleTessanne Tourism
Dear Editor, Jamaica went in a frenzy as Carson Daly the host of the NBC's competition The Voice, announced that the Jamaican songbird, Tessanne Chin, was the 2013 winner. Screams could be heard...
View ArticleThe unreliable Fire Brigade
Dear Editor, It seems the Jamaica Fire Brigade is non-existent. On December 20, 2013 at 12:30 pm, I saw pockets of smoke in the bushes behind our house in Hellshire, St Catherine. The fires were at...
View ArticlePortmore needs a good mayor
Dear Editor, Is it that Portmore has been put on auto pilot ? There is an Acting Mayor Leon Thomas since Mayor Lee's passing and we are still to see what he is doing. There have been no General Council...
View ArticleObama, lift the embargo on Cuba
Dear Editor, The United States of America is the only superpower in the world and is also the greatest country in the world. I am not about to apologise to anyone for saying this. Look no further than...
View ArticleOBSERVER ONLINE READER COMMENT: Prosperity will stem criminality, not...
Dear Editor, The solution to crime is beyond the remit of the Minister of National Security. Although he shot himself in the foot when he commented on what he has done in terms of legislation and the...
View ArticleWho says you can't teach new tricks?
Dear Editor, It is often said that politics is the art of the possible, which to me means that people in politics are able to accomplish much more than service clubs or even most of us ever can. But in...
View ArticleDo away with property tax, privatise
Dear Editor, Taxes are vital for the provision of public services, but politicians must not use this fact to impose unfair taxes. One such tax is the property tax, which is said to go directly to...
View ArticleAmbassador Tessanne Chin
Tessanne Chin has done Jamaica proud and in all of this I call on the Government to give her ambassador status. I can't think of anyone else at this moment that I would love to see as our ambassador....
View ArticleWANTED: A new breed of political representatives
Dear Editor, I have listened to the voices coming from every area of our society saying get rid of ineffective teachers and civil servants, clean up the system, and many other issues. Well, I am adding...
View ArticleWest Indies still in a rut
Dear Editor, If I am not mistaken, it's more than 13 years now since the West Indies have lost their title as the "world champions of cricket". They have also lost their indisputable killer instinct...
View ArticlePut our prisoners to work
Dear Editor, I have noticed over the years that it is customary for clearing and bushing work to be done during the Christmas season. Despite the best of efforts the allocations given to the members of...
View ArticleWhat our women can learn from Tessanne?
Dear Editor, After watching the fith season of The Voice, with our Jamaican songbird emerging as the winner, it was clear to most why she wooed the world. It was not only her singing and beauty, but...
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