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Published:Saturday | September 21, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:I Just read Orville Higgins' column 'Have the media finally grown up?' (Gleaner, September 20, 2013) and want to make an observation.

Published:Saturday | September 21, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: I watched TVJ's nightly news on Wednesday with mounting dismay, particularly, the segment dealing with the interview with the principals of the consortium called Azurest Cambridge Power....

Published:Saturday | September 21, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: I am seeking your assistance in reminding me if there was ever a time in the history of Portia Simpson Miller being prime minister of Jamaica that she made herself fully available for at least 30 minutes where she...

Published:Saturday | September 21, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: This is in response to Philip Lofters' letter titled 'Blame JADCO for drug barbs targeting Fraser-Pryce' (Gleaner, September 20...

Published:Saturday | September 21, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: This is an open letter to Minister of Energy Phillip Paulwell.

Published:Saturday | September 21, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:Dennis the Menace, one of my favourite comic-strip characters, in a recent episode, enquired of his mother why she has to pay so much for the items she had acquired in the gift shop.Perhaps Dennis should enquire of the Government of...

Published:Friday | September 20, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:I am certain that no matter who, in November, is chosen as the next Miss Universe, Kerrie Baylis will nonetheless make all of us proud.By 'all of us', I mean to say all Jamaicans, without regard to colour, complexion, or race.

Published:Friday | September 20, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:The monster that crime represents for Jamaica is painfully evidenced in the efforts, simple to Herculean, that businesses, residents and visitors alike employ to secure life and property.Our reality is one of criminal activity being part...

Published:Friday | September 20, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:On Tuesday, September 17, 2013, North West St Ann Member of Parliament Dr Dayton Campbell expressed some of the many negative repercussions that will occur as a result of the decriminalisation of marijuana.There is no doubt that...

Published:Friday | September 20, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:This is an open letter to Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.Regarding the Gleaner article 'Some thought I was on drugs' (http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130918/sports/sports1.html), and directed to Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce herself, perhaps...

Published:Friday | September 20, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:I write in response to Rico's letter in The Gleaner of Wednesday, September 18, 2013 titled 'Bangarang if party boss not opposition leader'.I am sure that we had this scenario before when the PNP was in Opposition and the party leader...

Published:Friday | September 20, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:Have we set up regulatory institutions to undermine them? Most civilised countries in the world today have all the institutions for good governance that we have been erecting.

Published:Thursday | September 19, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: Speaking at one of this 'consultation' meetings at the Wexford Court Hotel in Montego Bay, St James, Audley Shaw effectively nullified the platform on which he is seeking to be elected as leader...

Published:Thursday | September 19, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: THE RECENT comments made by Mayor Bertel Moore, inducing police personnel to shoot first and ask questions later, should not go unchallenged...

Published:Thursday | September 19, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: A great nation stands on a solid platform when it can come together despite personal beliefs, political affiliation, race, and gender, to build its firm foundation...

Published:Thursday | September 19, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:I am writing to express my dissatisfaction with the National Education Inspectorate ranking of schools across the island.When you publicly categorise schools as failing or their performance as unsatisfactory...

Published:Thursday | September 19, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: To every nation God gives what is needed to survive, but history continues to reveal the mess men have made of it, and in most instances it is all about satisfying our own greed...

Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:What a bangarang it would be if after the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) internal election is done the country is left with party leader Audley Shaw and Opposition Leader Andrew Holness.

Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:The otherwise excellent opinion piece by The Gavel in Monday's Gleaner (Page A10, September 16, 2013) was marred by the writer's massacre of a fairly well-known biblical quotation.The ghost author, in calling upon both the Government and...

Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:What has happened to Mr Audley Shaw in recent times - emotionally and physically? Mr Shaw needs to refresh himself of the late Maurice Bishop and those who, for their own selfish and manipulative interests, encouraged him to have a coup...

Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:I am forced to make a few comments on the article by Mr Daryl Vaz headlined 'Shaw vs Holness - the criterion is winnability' (Sunday Gleaner, September 15, 2013, at the expense of being labelled a supporter of Mr Andrew Holness.I admire...

Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:I am somewhat horrified and shocked that Bertel Moore, the mayor of Savanna-la-Mar, an elected officer of local government and a Christian, should publicly encourage the police to shoot first and ask questions later.May I remind Mr Moore...

Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: In his letter of September 13, 2013, Mr Hardley M.Lewin made the suggestion that the Chinese hub be put on the Kingston Harbour shore...

Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: I refer to your front-page headline of September 17, 2013, titled 'Shoot first!' ...

Published:Tuesday | September 17, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:My letter is in reference to three recent letters/articles by Drs Henry Lowe and Albert Lockhart attempting to clarify where the work on Canasol began.First, I must declare that as a young scientist, I continue to admire and be inspired...

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