Letters

Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'No letting up' about the police's push to 'clean up' downtown Kingston.

The Editor, Sir:The question of law and order in downtown Kingston is quite clear.

The Editor, Sir:I am an 18-year-old student of St Jago High School and I am utterly appalled by what is happening in my country.

The Editor, Sir:The more you read the papers, the more you read negative comments about the education system in Jamaica.

The Editor, Sir: The charge delivered to the audience attending the launching of National Heritage Week 2010 must not be taken lightly.The Reverend Milton Davidson speaks for the vast majority of Bible-believing people throughout Jamaica.

THE EDITOR, Sir: POOR PEOPLE will continue to find it difficult to educate their children in the prevailing negative educational environment.

THE EDITOR, Sir:WITH THE recent catastrophic failure of the alumina plant red mud lake in the town of Kolontar, Hungary, and the resulting deaths and total devastation to an entire town...

THE EDITOR, Sir: I AM a regular reader of The Gleaner.And I am Haitian. I was so shocked reading the article about the Jamaican fisherman who was incarcerated in Haiti for three years.

The Editor, Sir:I read with interest an article titled 'From 'Water Boy' to PM? Shaw JLP front-runner if Golding quits' published in The Sunday Gleaner, October 10.While much of it was obviously largely...

The Editor, Sir:Professor Carolyn Cooper's article 'Where are the eligible men?' in The Sunday Gleaner (October 10), offers an interesting com-mentary on the important subject of the marginalisation of the Jamaican male....

The Editor, Sir:The decision to raise the toll barriers at the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 whenever the alternative route of Mandela Highway is inundated or impassable, posing a threat to road safety, should be independent of whether the Government can...