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Over 3,400 candidates with varying disabilities sat CXC examinations in 2025
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Over 3,400 candidates with varying disabilities sat CXC examinations in 2025
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Shanoya Douglas tastes rare defeat at hand of Trinidadian Alexxe Henry
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Thompson’s contribution will live forever
November 2, 2010
Dear Editor, The region has lost one of it outstanding sons. David John Howard Thompson, departed this life at 2:10 am on October 23, just two months ...
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Irwindale residents irked by traffic invasion
November 2, 2010
Dear Editor, The Irwindale Citizens' Association in St James wishes to have a meeting with members of the relevant authority at the Irwindale communit...
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Jamaicans adapt to their environment
November 1, 2010
Dear Editor, I refer to Monday's editorial, "Two-faced Jamaicans: Why are we better when overseas?" The new environments that Jamaican migrants enter ...
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Not lonely duo
November 1, 2010
Dear Editor, I wish to correct a small error in your report on November 1, "Lonely Duo in the Senate" in which you listed Senator Tom Tavares-Finson a...
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Consult teachers, students on corporal punishment
November 1, 2010
Dear Editor, The trend in countries such as the United States and the UK over the decades has been to eradicate the need for corporal punishment in fa...
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One-dimensional economic approach
November 1, 2010
Dear Editor, I refer to your story in Caribbean Business Report on October 29, "Jesus Silva: Setting new ambassadorial standards in Jamaica". It would...
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Some thoughts for Parents’ Month
November 1, 2010
Dear Editor, I support Mark Wignall's comments in his October 28 column and his questions about the state of Jamaica's illiteracy and the inability to...
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Care for the less fortunate
November 1, 2010
Dear Editor, For those Jamaicans who can afford overseas health care, quality education for themselves and their children, everyday living expenses an...
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Manatt Commission can’t find truth
October 31, 2010
Dear Editor, There have been calls for transparency, integrity, consensus, facts and truth in relation to the Manatt Commission of Enquiry. The irony ...
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Congrats, Novia
October 31, 2010
Dear Editor, Novia McDonald-Whyte was recently honoured by the Rotary Club of Kingston with the Vocational Services Award 2010 for her efforts with va...
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Who fail to deliver must go
October 31, 2010
Dear Editor, Government is that neutral party that extracts from private citizens their share of resources needed to furnish the country with its nece...
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Farewell, David
October 31, 2010
Cap: Former Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson Dear Editor, The news of the death of my friend, David Thompson, reinforces the mortality of humani...
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Whew! Observer we thought you’d lost it!
October 31, 2010
Dear Editor: In my household the Observer is our preferred choice of newspapers and even our teenage children find it interesting. But I have to admit...
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Remembering Sir Frederic Cowen
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Remembering Sir Frederic Cowen
October 31, 2010
Dear Editor, As we end the month of October it might be appropriate for aficionados of classical music to note the 75th anniversary of the death of th...
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Thank you, UHWI
October 30, 2010
Dear editor, For the last two months we have been living every family's nightmare - having a critically injured member of family. Our son is still far...
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Stop the lip service and restore downtown Kingston
October 30, 2010
Dear editor, For the better part of the last 20 years, there has been talk of restoring downtown Kingston. While the unsurpassed lip service on the is...
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Outsource the court system
October 30, 2010
Dear Editor, I read in one of our newspapers yesterday, October 30, that the case involving the plain-clothes policeman who is alleged to have shot on...
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Help Haiti with potable water
October 28, 2010
Dear Editor, As neighbours we share the profound sadness that accompanies the tragic news about the deplorable cholera epidemic that presently afflict...
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Cell tower no problem, NEPA?
October 28, 2010
Dear Editor, I recently saw on the news on TVJ a group of higglers and other market people demonstrating at the Annotto Bay Market about a cellphone t...
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Take the lead, Caricom
October 28, 2010
Dear Editor, With all the "noise" made by Caricom since its inception, it is hard to think what it has produced beside periodic pronouncements both vo...
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No need to belittle security workers
October 28, 2010
Dear Editor, What baffles me is the way people in general look down on security workers as if they are worthless, unambitious members of the proletari...
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Condolence to Argentine embassy, citizens
October 28, 2010
Dear Editor On behalf of the Government and people of Venezuela, the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela extends its sincere and deepest c...
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