THE EDITOR, Sir:This letter is in response to the letter by Mr Bert Samuels, attorney-at-law, and addressed to Mr Bruce Golding, prime minister.When I was a young boy, my grandmother told me, "Speak the truth and speak it ever, cost it what it may."...
THE EDITOR, Sir:We are very grateful for the assessment of our school expressed by Mr Din Duggan in The Gleaner of January 19, 2011.However, some salient points need to be added.First, most of Hillel Academy teachers are Jamaica- or Caribbean-born and...
THE EDITOR, Sir:I write in response to the letter to the editor, published in The Gleaner on January 20, about burning being a nuisance to the environment.
THE EDITOR, Sir:I totally agree with Lance Neita on the untapped tourist attractions in Jamaica. I would go even further to state that the people involved in the tourism market...
THE EDITOR, Sir:Masquerading their proposals as efforts to uplift the working and lower classes from dependence on government has proven to be the main reason why Jamaicans do not trust either political party.We always hear both leaders articulate...
THE EDITOR, Sir:THOSE WHO have the formal responsibility to present us to the world and to ourselves must always appreciate that Jamaica is its people, culture and history, with that indefinable 'something' that identifies us...
THE EDITOR, Sir:WHY HAVE we forsaken our own and named the Boscobel Aerodrome after a foreigner? Why have we not considered naming it after any of the Jamaicans responsible for the past and future development of the area, for example, the Issas,...
THE EDITOR, Sir:The prime minister, addressing Parliament on Tuesday, was obviously upset by the fact that the courts seem to be entertaining high legal costs filed by lawyers in election petition matters recently decided in the courts.
THE EDITOR, Sir:MOTORISTS IN the Corporate Area who were being inconvenienced or harassed by the young men wiping windscreens at stop lights should be congratulating Senior Superintendent Radcliffe Lewis, who had the vision and gets to deal...
THE EDITOR, Sir:It is with utter disgust that I write this letter about burning.Sir, apart from the constant burning of garbage and debris, there is a chemical/metal smelling substance that is being burnt not only in the inner cities, but almost...
THE EDITOR, Sir:The problem of foreign vessels entering our waters and stealing from our fisheries has been plaguing us for a long time.The Fisheries Advisory Board, in conjunction with biologists from the University of the West Indies, recently did a...
THE EDITOR, Sir:For a man who holds no brief for anyone, I find it inexplicable how Mr Ian Boyne could be so generous to Mr Delano Seiveright as to declare that the "young man is not your typical tribalist".Mr Seiveright's remarks never seem to bear the...
THE EDITOR, Sir:A recent news report about the unfairness in the allocation of funds for road repair and maintenance in some areas of St Elizabeth should not cause the mayor of Black River to invoke his Christian beliefs in affirming his commitment to...
THE EDITOR, Sir:Whenever I feel there is nothing I have not yet heard, I am humbled to discover there is no limit to man's stupidity, and every day brings a new inanity.Good money, I am sure, has been spent 'educating' these language experts, who must...
THE EDITOR, Sir:I firmly believe in culture, but where culture clashes with population growth and technology, something has got to give.Take, for example, Grand Market.
THE EDITOR, Sir:Like Diogenes searching at high noon with a lighted lamp, I have tried, without success, to find just cause for naming the Boscobel airport after Ian Fleming.
THE EDITOR, Sir: Once again, we are hearing about a glut of vegetables on the local market. While our farmers and vendors are bemoaning the fact that they have to be dumping vegetables...
THE EDITOR, Sir:I write to take issue with the letter from the 'Former Civil Servant' in the January 17, 2011 issue of The Gleaner.The writer claims that "the civil service is not as neutral as some make it out to be".
THE EDITOR, Sir:Mr Ian Boyne wrote a most unfortunate column in The Sunday Gleaner (January 16, 2011) about G2K President Delano Seiveright's proposals regarding how we deal, in general, with senior persons in our civil service and public sector...
THE EDITOR, Sir:Kindly allow me space to comment on a letter in The Gleaner dated January 15, 2011, by Mr Oneil Hall.First, Mr Hall states that the action of firing upon the Honduran vessel was wrong as it was "simply people catching fish to eat".
THE EDITOR, Sir:I am a trained teacher of physics and physical education and am unable to find employment in Jamaica.I have written tons of applications and have attended numerous interviews across the island for almost a year.
THE EDITOR, Sir:I was stunned to read that the current glut of some fruits and vegetables on the local market was being considered a negative development in light of the high cost of food.
THE EDITOR, Sir: The decision to give managerial authority of the new Downtown Municipal Transport Centre to the KSAC spells another management disaster in process...
