The Editor, Sir:I note with great consternation the impulsive reaction of opposition Spokesman on National Security, Peter Bunting, responding to claims by Cuban officials that the Jamaican Government had failed to cooperate with Cuba in tackling the...
Published:Wednesday | December 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
THE EDITOR, Sir: DR CHRISTOPHER TUFTON is The Gleaner's man of the year for 2010. Mr Audley Shaw is Ken Chaplain's. However, I beg to differ. Instead, the good doctor should be named Politician of the Year - a separate category...
Published:Wednesday | December 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
THE EDITOR, Sir:Senator Dwight Nelson, minister of national security, must rescind, with immediate effect, the contracts awarded to funeral homes across the island for the removal and storage of bodies, as his decision is creating an anomaly in the...
Published:Wednesday | December 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
THE EDITOR, Sir:THE RESULTS of the Grade Four Literacy Test is out and we have seen the lingering problem of a high percentage of our students, mainly from inner-city communities, not numbered among those who have mastered...
To the Editor, Sir: In response to Mel Cooke's article 'A slap versus a beating' in The Gleaner of December 13, both a slap and a beating have the same potential of causing harm to children as well as to adult women in abusive situations....
THE EDITOR,Sir: In his article titled 'Why corruption stinks', published in The Sunday Gleaner of December 12, Ian Boyne once again demonstrated his understanding of the problems affecting our society and the solutions needed.
The Editor, Sir: Let me make it quite clear from the outset that I'm a teetotaller and really don't care if J. Wray & Nephew closes and the workers lose their jobs. However, I admire the spunk with which David McConnell and Wayne Cummings...
The Editor, Sir: A quote from a Gleaner article of December 8 states:"Lowe also explained that the formula in this nutraceutical product 'will provide prostate health as well as slow down the growth...
The Editor, Sir:As Jamaicans (maybe others elsewhere have similar experiences), we are aware and personally affected by 'interest' and 'late payment' fees.
The Editor, Sir: Your Online Feedback contributor THEDKJ of Saturday, December 11, questioned "just what is happening to the Jamaican rum industry" and further...
The Editor, Sir:While I would not go as far as labelling it a 'scandalous decision' as well-known apologist for the People's National Party Garnett Roper has done (Gleaner, December 12), as a staunch Labourite, I believe that the Government should...
The Editor, Sir:It would seem that this Government has little regard for the many civil servants who carry out the day-to-day activities of the various ministries and agencies and without whom, like it or not, Government cannot function....
The Editor, Sir: If I had been born big, I would surely think everybody else was born big back home in Jamaica. It is no secret that crime, mismanagement and the educational system are the things that are stopping Jamaica moving forward.
The Editor, Sir:The never-ending dual-citizenship scandal rocking the Jamaican Parliament is nothing short of disgraceful on the part of the MPs involved.
The Editor, Sir:Having travelled many of the roads in Jamaica in the course of my geological investigations, I feel that some comment is needed on their current state.
The Editor, Sir:The controversy regarding the publishing of the Grade Four Literacy Test results has started and again I believe that our focus is wrong.
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Liquor protest - company withholds products to force Gov't's hand with new tax'.Call their bluff!This is the defining...
The Editor, Sir: The Office of Utilities Regu-lation (OUR) was never intended to be a consumer advocate, and thus its staffing and mandate reflect this clearly.
The Editor, Sir:The prime minister's explanation about the plan to sell off Up Park Camp, as delivered to Parliament on December 7, continues to mock the intelligence of the Jamaican people.
