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Letters to the Editor
Letters about Jamaican Issues
'Out of place'
Saturday, December 07, 2013
Dear Editor, As a Jamaican who considers Trinidad and Tobago his second home, I was disappointed beyond description when I read an article in the Trinidad Guardian, published on December 4, 2013, titled 'Out of Place' where National Security Minister Gary Griffith "knocked his colleague, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston ...more
We need more access to WWW
Saturday, December 07, 2013
Dear Editor,
Jamaica's rate of Internet penetration is not very encouraging. Despite significant progress made over the last decade, it remains relatively low.
In fact, St Lucia, at number 11, is the only Caribbean island listed among the top 50 co ...more
Are there Mandelas among us?
Saturday, December 07, 2013
Dear Editor,
There is a lesson for Jamaica to learned from the life of Nelson Mandela. Mandela placed the unity of his country over and above personal offences irrespective of how serious they were. In so doing he was able to overlook racial oppress ...more
Vybz over Kern
Friday, December 06, 2013
Dear Editor,
I wonder what is behind some media houses' attempt to almost block out the trial of politician Kern Spencer with that of Vybz Kartel?
Here we are in a country where the corruption index finds us sliding further down that slippery slope ...more
We need a change
Friday, December 06, 2013
Dear Editor, The prime minister of Barbados, Freundel Stewart, has repeated the following statement on innumerable occasions: "Barbados has the best civil service in the Caribbean." None should accuse him of being a braggart because he deserves bra ...more
Cheers to Vauxhall High
Friday, December 06, 2013
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 guard as this achievement is not only unpreceden ...more
Lame 'Buy Jamaican' campaign
Friday, December 06, 2013
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 (JIS) programme some time ago that was urging us ...more
OBSERVER ONLINE READERS COMMENT: Caribbean integration is not natural
Friday, December 06, 2013
Dear Editor:
To take a stand is not hate. To demand respect is not hate. No one is demanding that anyone be let into Trinidad or any other place. We are simply saying that refusals should comply with the recent court ruling, access to consulates, at ...more
Justice for the people
Friday, December 06, 2013
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 the spirit of our Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) 2002 ...more
ATL is truly unbeatable
Thursday, December 05, 2013
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 doesn't get lost in the voluminous submissions during ...more
Save Pinnacle for RasTafari
Thursday, December 05, 2013
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 manifesting as Babylon would will it. Already s ...more
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