THE EDITOR, Madam, I write to correct and clarify statements I made that form the basis of your article entitled “An undesirable approach” that appeared in The Gleaner on Thursday July 27. The penultimate paragraph states that the “bill for the...
THE EDITOR, Madam: It is a barbed wired fence between diplomatic faux pas and common sense. An apology is needed. Details about any aspect of diplomats lives should remain confidential. Family joining can be listed as sibling, employee personal...
THE EDITOR, Madam; I recently heard audio on the newscast of the People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding at political meeting “dem haffi go vote for comrade Peterkin when di election call and even some who not alive, if dem can deal...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I recently heard Prime Minister Andrew Holness explain that with a budget of J$1 trillion and debt servicing at J$280.6 billion, only 28 per cent of every dollar goes to debt, a decrease from 48 per cent which had obtained in...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Israel’s pro and con judicial reform rallies look similar, but there are core differences between the activists who have been blocking Israeli roads and emboldening Israel’s enemies. The left-wing rallies are orchestrated and...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Politicians from both sides of the political divide are notorious for making ill-conceived statements. However, having moved away from the dark days of inter-party violence, the dead voting and the stuffing of ballot boxes, one...
THE EDITOR, Madam: There is a saying that the further we explore the past permits us to see farther beyond the present. There is so much about the history of this country that has remained unexplored in a setting of an abundance of evidence. I...
THE EDITOR, Madam: A recent study published in Journal of Science reveals that about 416,000 years ago, a significant portion of Greenland was an ice-free tundra landscape, potentially covered by trees and inhabited by woolly mammoths. This...
The St Catherine South police have charged three persons for breaches of Jamaica's lottery scam laws following an operation last week in Phoenix Village, Portmore, St Catherine. They are Noel Romeo Martin, 21, a farmer and...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I recently returned to the the island from an overseas trip to Europe. I noticed that the arrival and departure hallway leading from the entrance right to the immigration section of the Norman Manley International Airport is...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Florida wants to teach African Americans to be happy about slavery because the enslaved benefited from having been taught “useful skills”. The enslavers and their descendants, who are now trying to make us believe this...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Several international media houses have been carrying reports of ongoing protests in Israel, with Jewish people rallying against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, known by his childhood nickname of ‘Bibi’....
THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing with reference to the news story ‘Roman Catholic priest accused of sexual abuse remanded’, published on July 18. If the abuse, sexual or otherwise, is allowed to continue for a prolonged period, the trauma can act...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing in response to Burnett Robinson’s letter titled ‘Jamaica should take the lead on Haiti’. Like all well-thinking Jamaicans, I am sympathetic to the situation in Haiti. However, I do not believe that the best way to...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I read the news story on Sunday for calls by Abka Fitz-Henley for the Sexual Offences Act to be amended to mandate life imprisonment for people who rape children. The story was a difficult read. It outlined that bizarre sex...
THE EDITOR, Madam: It is with great dismay as a parent of a new high-school student accepted into a prominent all boys school in Kingston, that I learnt that school administrators have permitted the promulgation of a ‘grubbing’ culture. That the...
THE EDITOR, Madam: In recent times, the high levels of ignorance that are displayed by stakeholders like the private sector, members of the media, some government technocrats, and the wider general public, on the critical role which private...
THE EDITOR, Madam: A letter to the editor published on June 10 offers a distorted contribution to the Privy Council debate. The author clearly feels unhappy with what he describes as a “new procedure” adopted by the Privy Council. It is not...
THE EDITOR, Madam: The recent influx of Haitians to Jamaica brings the country into sharp focus again. Haiti has moved from a country where wealth and natural resources was once in abundance, but now, because of exploitation from world powers,...
THE EDITOR, Madam: The part II of the 28th session of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) began on July 10 in Kingston, and continues until July 28. These meetings, focused on deep-sea mining (DSM), started one day after the two-year rule...
THE EDITOR, Given that my grandaunt, who has for sometime yearned for adequate shelter was among the beneficiaries of over 100 houses which were recently built in Manchester, I was a bit saddened to hear the member of parliament Mikael Phillips...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I am not the most religious follower of current affairs around, or an ardent observer of the sociopolitical and economy-related discourse in Jamaica. However, my heart swells with pride whenever I see another house being...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I am a firm believer in succession planning and giving others a chance, but I am making an exception and calling for another extension of Paula Llewellyn’s tenure as Jamaica’s director of public prosecutions (DPP). It’s a...
THE EDITOR, Madam: The United States’ decision to appoint a homosexual couple as the consular representatives to Jamaica, unmasks the US for the truly evil country that it is. This appointment shows that the US does not consider Jamaica to be a...
THE EDITOR, Madam: How is it that in 2023, the 21st century, all high schools in Jamaica, both public and private, are not fully wheelchair-accessible? It is a crying shame that, as has been recently highlighted in the media, wheelchair-bound...
