Published:Wednesday | December 13, 2023 | 12:09 AM
THE EDITOR, Madam: I read with interest an article in The Sunday Gleaner titled ‘Privy Council and CCJ can exist side by side, says UK court’. In light of that, I want to look at the whole issue of constitutional reform. In recent times, two lords...
Published:Wednesday | December 13, 2023 | 12:08 AM
THE EDITOR, Madam: A common feature of low-crime nations is that they are well educated, and a common feature of well-educated nations is that they are low-crime. If we accept that we are all products of what we have learnt, given that we all came...
THE EDITOR, Madam: December 8 was the sombre 43rd death anniversary of John Lennon and coincided with a special meeting of the 15-member Security Council at the United Nations Building quite close by his murder scene in New York City. The singer’...
THE EDITOR, Madam: What do TVJ’s ‘Altogether Sing’ and Boys and Girls’ Champs have in common? If there were an international choir competition, as with track and field, Jamaica would surely be winning there, too. Watching and listening to the...
THE EDITOR, Madam: One could easily be forgiven to presume that a country described as the land of wood and water would also be a land of swimmers. But based on my unscientific survey of 120 Jamaicans, I believe it might be fairly accurate to...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Congratulations to the West Indies on winning an One Day International (ODI) home series against England for the first time since 1998. Desmond Haynes has silenced the critics with this series victory in emphatic fashion. Keacy...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I visited the National Commercial Bank Knutsford (NCB) Boulevard branch on September 11 morning to renew my token and password. Upon accessing my account at the branch, I found that my balance was a little over $1,300 when it...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I would like the opportunity to have my voice heard on ‘cleaning up Jamaica’. If only as a country we could recognise our true, raw talent placing us on the map, internationally in music, sports, intellect and culture. We know...
THE EDITOR, Madam: The disciplinary committee of the General Legal Council (GLC) has sanctioned Attorney-at-law Isat Buchanan by suspending him from practising law for a period of two years and a monetary fine of $500,000. There have been a...
THE EDITOR, Madam: We celebrate Christmas, but what are we really celebrating? We know that the baby Jesus came to mankind and that the shepherds in Bethlehem heard an angel proclaim that a Saviour, the Messiah, had been born. These shepherds...
THE EDITOR, Madam: It is as clear as the midday sun, the universe’s brightest star shining in all its strength, that Jamaica needs to stop, look, and act. On an arc from Cromwell’s sending of Admiral Penn and General Venables in 1655 to the...
THE EDITOR, Madam: It was very heartening to see the triumphant captain Shai Hope of the West Indies One Day International (ODI) squad that routed England in the first match in the three-match series. Hope played a captain’s knock, his decisive...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I write to express my utter disgust and frustration at the treatment and lack of urgency within the current system to support families to decently bury their deceased loved ones. In this instance, I was travelling in Canada,...
Thirty-three additional persons from 12 countries granted Jamaican citizenship While I understand their happiness to become one of us, I’m also confused as to why folks from the likes of France, US, and the Republic of China see it as a success...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Mark Golding has shown that if you unite and build your party you don’t need popularity to win. The next general election will be decided by the party and personalities. In the 2020 general election it was clear that Andrew...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Those with power are expected to behave responsibly. While I agree that Isat Buchanan should be sanctioned, I am appalled at the abuse of power seen in the two years that he is barred from practising law. The Jamaican Bar...
THE EDITOR, Madam: The Sunday Gleaner (November 5, 2023) story, 'I was only trying to protect my father', describes Jamaica's psychosocial temperature. The story is an interview with Tameka Henry,the mother of the 11-year-old boy, Fytzroi...
THE EDITOR, Madam: There has been quite a bit of anticipation since the crowning of the new monarch a year ago as to how soon the king will define and articulate his role as leader of the Commonwealth of Nations. During the latter years of the...
THE EDITOR, Madam: A Jamaican adage implies that there are two things a woman should never 'run down' (chase); ‘a bus and a man, as there is always another around the corner’. My, how times have changed! In the case of the bus - a means of...
THE Editor, Madam: The long-standing border controversy between the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela arose as a result of the Venezuelan contention that the Arbitral Award of 1899 about the frontier...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Allow me to use this medium to state how disgruntled I am with some of the students who are now attending schools. I have been following the news over the past few months and I’m surprised to see what has been happening with our...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Anticipating the start of the next academic term, school fights will inevitably return. Though some of them will not be paraded on social media, fights also happen in the schools that people call “prestige”, so there is no need...
THE EDITOR, Madam: In the article ‘Transgenderism is redefining reality’ published in The Sunday Gleaner on December 3, 2023, my medical colleague Dr Garth Rattray wrote extensively about sex, ‘trans’, and gender. However, he failed to clarify...
THE EDITOR, Madam: Dr Lascelves ‘Muggy’ Graham has written extensively on the issue of high schools engaging in the recruitment of student athletes. Dr Graham’s crusade against this practice has been long and without the desired result. By all...
