Commentary

Jennifer Edwards should never have been given the job from the start. She is trained neither in waste management nor logistics, and had not, insofar as we are aware, distinguished herself in any area of management.

I am in sympathy with all vaginas in the world, irrespective of race and class and place of abode. Vaginas all over the world need to form a union in order to try to get some inoculation against diseases.

THE EDITOR, Sir: The Gleaner's recent editorial about the economic opportunities available to Jamaica in the BRICS countries was misleading, to say the least. These "booming" economies are not booming; they're stagnating.

THE EDITOR, Sir: A few weeks ago, I was watching the state funeral for the Honourable Roger Clarke, on TVJ, and was most disconcerted to see the service interrupted by the station's broadcast of the midday Supreme Ventures lottery draw.

THE EDITOR, Sir: Allow me space in your paper to voice a pressing concern of national importance. It seems like it has now become customary for the leader of the opposition, Andrew Holness, to be absent from national events.

Something positive may yet be salvaged from that ghastly incident last week in St Catherine in which four men transporting the pay bill for workers building the North-South highway were ambushed and shot dead. It seems that, at last, the authorities are taking security on the site seriously.