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Double murder mars Christmas Day on March Pen Road
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Probe Hutton’s
March 11, 2010
Dear Editor, I am disheartened to say the least over the story about the failure of Hutton's Education Unit to pay over millions of dollars in CXC fee...
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Good deeds yield goodness
March 10, 2010
Dear Editor, Personal development and good governance are uniquely connected to our evolution. On a karmic level Jamaica is not that relatively young....
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Apologise or resign, Minister Bartlett
March 10, 2010
Dear Editor, It is with deep regret and sadness that I find it necessary to address the American Airlines deal with the minister of tourism. When the ...
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Kudos, Jean
March 10, 2010
Dear Editor, I refer to Jean Lowrie-Chin's column of Monday March 8, with specific reference to the section "Happy Int'l Women's Day". I am reminded o...
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Renegotiate if extradition treaty is imperfect
March 10, 2010
Dear Editor, Like Sunday's newspapers, the Observer of Monday, March 8 was inundated with articles and letters regarding Prime Minister Golding's rece...
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Stressed
March 9, 2010
Dear Editor, During the last general election campaign, Bruce Golding told us that Jamaicans were too blessed to be stressed. Well, surprise, surprise...
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Revise drug laws
March 9, 2010
Dear Editor, In the traditional matrix where tiny Jamaica must endure the overwhelming power and hubris of the mighty USA, we need to adopt smart stra...
Letters
Wake up, PM
March 9, 2010
Dear Editor, I read Ken Spencer's open letter to Prime Minister Bruce Golding on Monday and endorse it 100 per cent. In "Please reconsider, PM", Mr Sp...
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Show the right colours of the flag
March 8, 2010
Dear Editor, Have we any pride in our national symbols, in particular our national flag, which continues to be misrepresented physically? Or is this j...
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Disgusting behaviour
March 8, 2010
Dear Editor, An incident on Wednesday, March 3 has prompted me to write this letter. At about 6:00pm that day, I was in the vicinity of Barbican Squar...
Letters
Kudos
March 8, 2010
Dear Editor, Page 8 of the Observer of March 4 ( two articles) is the best page of analysis I have seen in my years of reading your paper! Kudos to al...
Letters
Please reconsider, PM
March 7, 2010
Dear Editor, This is an open letter to Prime Minister Bruce Golding Your public utterances on the matter of Dudus Coke vs the United States might be e...
Letters
Care the needy
March 7, 2010
Dear Editor, Talk-show hosts and others have lambasted the church on what they say is its lack of compassion. The church is everyone who has decided t...
Letters
Where were the voices before the Armadale fire?
March 7, 2010
Dear Editor, Many words have been spoken but no action taken as we fast approach the one-year anniversary of the event which can be described as the A...
Letters
Give concession to pensioners in JDX programme
March 6, 2010
Dear Editor, I read in utter amazement and disillusionment the announcement by the Government of Jamaica that those investors who did not subscribe to...
Letters
Are Jamaicans homphobic with good reason?
March 6, 2010
Dear Editor, Reggae artistes whose shows are being boycotted in the United States and whose records are being blacklisted in Europe must be hurting fi...
Letters
Memory lapse, McNeil?
March 5, 2010
Dear Editor, Representative McNeil has issued a passionate demand that Minister Bartlett and others be severely censured because of a ruling by the co...
Letters
What say you?
March 4, 2010
Dear Editor, The political quandary in which the government has found itself vis-a-vis the Dudus Coke extradition saga is one that generates no envy. ...
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‘…It would be admissible in evidence’
March 4, 2010
Dear Editor, If, as the prime minister said in Parliament on Tuesday, indictment against Christopher "Dudus" Coke was secured by illegally obtained ev...
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No, Bruce!
March 4, 2010
Dear Editor, I must congratulate you on an excellent editorial in the March 4 edition of your paper, " No man is (worth) an island". It should have be...

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