THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing to express my concern about the recent surge of negativity surrounding the marriage of two legal professionals that has been circulating on social media. It is disheartening to witness the prevalence of hostility...
THE EDITOR, Madam: As the country reels from one murderous event to the next, the hand-wringing of the political class has become overwhelming and is depressing. This gives me the impression that they don’t have any clue about the causes or...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Currently and over the past many years in Jamaica and to some extent the wider Caribbean, our focus has been to measure tourism success in terms of arrivals and earnings. These measures are superficial as they do not focus on...
THE EDITOR, Madam: When I began my personal journey to find a set of workable moral principles, I decided what we call morality simply began with what worked, then became was true and not what was false, and finally that, with whatever moral...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I recently read an article in The Gleaner regarding the chairman of the National Water Commission, with allegations of his violating the terms of a development approval to build residential real estate. There is a growing...
THE EDITOR, Madam: The recent revelations of the unhygienic and disgusting conduct of one vendor at Crab Circle in Kingston has rightfully revolted every decent Jamaican. Thankfully, this failure of basic decency and rudimentary sanitary...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing this letter with reference to the article ‘Term Limits’, published in The Gleaner on September 28. I am requesting that one of the Government’s proposals on the ballots for the Constitutional (Amendment) Bills is...
THE EDITOR, Madam: The Government should be held responsible for failing to prevent unsanitary practices at Crab Circle. The Ministry of Health and Wellness should have had inspectors to check on the conditions there, how the vendors are going to...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Let me express how disgruntled I am towards Parliament for their discussion on bus and taxi fare increase. The minister raised a point where taxi operators have been asking for a raise for two years now. Weren’t they given a...
THE EDITOR, Madam: In the midst of West Indies’ see-saw performances, one of the many commentaries from fans is about individual islands going their own way. “Let Trinidad and Tobago withdraw from the West Indies and compete on our own, same with...
THE EDITOR, Madam: An article in the New York Times by Simon Romero: ‘A patois revival: Jamaica weighs language change as ties to Britain fray’ gave some familiar overview of the Jamaican language environment and the kind of almost unconscious...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I am again raising the question why DNA sample collection has not been adapted as the standard in crime scene investigations. The application and use of this proven scientific methodology is an invaluable crime-fighting tool in...
THE EDITOR, Madam: In a world often characterised by complaints about inefficiencies and inadequate services, it’s important to pause and appreciate instances where organisations demonstrate their commitment to improvement and responsiveness....
THE EDITOR, Madam: The man asked me if I would be coming back down the hill from town to Papine to the place I was staying while in training in Kingston. I hadn’t come back so late before, but the meeting went on later than I had expected. I told...
THE EDITOR, Madam: The late Wilmot ‘Mutty’ Perkins, on his radio programmes, occasionally reminded listeners of a statement made by former Mayor of Atlanta Andrew Young: “We should applaud achievements, not announcements.” In Jamaica, there is...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Once again, the issues of term limits for the position of prime minister and fixed election dates have attracted public discussion, encouraged, no doubt, by recent poll findings. Both were manifesto commitments in the JLP...
THE EDITOR, Madam: As the adage goes, “It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt.” Such is the case with the recent and alarming incident that saw over 60 primary-school students hospitalised due to consuming THC-infused candies – products...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Notwithstanding the poor state of Jamaica’s education system, I sense a growing consciousness that enables Jamaicans to distinguish between ‘bling’ and substance. Deep in our guts, we feel disenfranchised, discouraged, and...
THE EDITOR, Madam: In light of the recent incident where a video captured a vendor at a popular eatery using a stall without sanitary facilities for defecation, I find it quite astonishing that there was no sanitary facility at that location....
THE EDITOR, Madam: Events in the Gaza Strip on the 50th anniversary of 1973’s Yom Kippur War certainly caught the government of Israel by surprise, even though their foreign spy agency, Mossad, and its domestic equivalent, Shin Bet, have long...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Streetside food vending globally is a fascination for tourists and locals alike, and Jamaica is no different. It is an ingrained aspect of our cultural diversity, and will be in the long haul. ‘Border’ at St Elizabeth-...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Congratulations to the boys from the B.B. Coke High School, who assisted their schoolmate who was beaten at their school recently. It is commendable and promising to see that the boys choose to help than to record a video. The...
THE EDITOR, Madam: The Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) has received reports from residents in Barrett Hall and Coultart Grove, St Ann, regarding a bauxite-alumina company’s intention to use the community’s narrow roads for their bauxite trucks....
THE EDITOR, Madam; Maybe the media will not be able to keep track of the number of condemnatory words used against the resurgence of head-wagging rapes and brutal murders in the country. Words, that already melted like butter against the sun,...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I hear that there maybe ongoing discussions in Jamaica whether or not to abolish the law that forbids buggery. God did not make sexual relations for persons of the same biological sex; but He created it for persons of the...
