Dear Editor,

I wish to thank the Jamaica Observer newspaper for yet another pithy yet tartly irreverent weekday edition on Wednesday, August 20, 2014.

Firstly, I was struck by your bitingly feisty editorial question, ‘Has the Jamaica Teachers’ Association gone rogue?’ Then, as I dived into the piece, I had to pause to consider each sentence. The phrase-picture of the JTA as the “new virago of the times” was priceless. You nudged me to imagine an era when the Jamaican word ‘tegereg’ would insistently whisper and hiss to be included in a more populist name for our amazing teachers’ union such as JTA-N; “N” for Nicely and “T” for…

Secondly, the column which discussed the VOIP question, ‘Is Viber the problem or the victim’ is, to me, a masterpiece of critical thinking. The writer should be urgently recruited to serve as counsellor extraordinaire to each and every Jamaican Cabinet minister and awarded a grateful pension from the public purse. And the parliamentary Opposition should seek his services as a private lessons tutor for all of its spokesmen who are not in the Senate.

As extra-curricular activity, the author could start and nurture a Jamaican charity to perpetually oversee releases from the newly irrational JTA-N, the Rev Al Miller, the Police High Command, and its Barnett Street officers and, of course, The JFJ-S (“S” for slackness) in thinking straight (no pun intended).

By the way, should LIME and Digicel deem it fitting, they could allow Portia, Kamla and even Phillip to have 6G Wi-Fi access to overseas connectivity whenever and wherever the need arises…er, via Skype.

Dennis A Minott, PhD,

Scientist and CEO of A-QuEST