More on Cable TV and piracy
THE EDITOR, Sir: I WRITE with reference to the recent commentary by columnist Clifton Segree on the continuing illegal practice of cable operators of transmitting programming and charging customers for access to it without the required permission from...

Remittances and the teachers' exodus
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE CURRENT exodus of trained teachers to work in the United States of America should not be seen only in the light of Jamaica losing its trained teachers but should also be seen in the light of the fact that we are producing teachers...

Patriotism and economy class
THE EDITOR, Sir: My question is how can letter-writer Mr. Alan Morris and others like him claim to love Jamaica unconditionally, yet they are Jamaicans and have chosen to migrate and live in foreign lands? Don't they know that if they came back to...

Old, tired people and the post office
THE EDITOR, Sir: ON JULY 4, 2001, I went to the Bushy Park Post Office in St. Catherine to collect my mails.

Ganja makes you stupid, careless, lazy
THE EDITOR, Sir: I KNEW it was coming, but I hoped against hope that it would not happen. But why should I care if any hope of our children making anything of themselves is now quite dead? Why care if we become a nation of idiots as well as being poor?

Emancipation and its celebration
THE EDITOR, Sir: MY ARTICLE 'Emancipation Day' (Gleaner, Tuesday, August 14, 2001) seems to have hit an uncalculated target. I hope there are no casualties. "It is irksome" as Mr. R. Anthony Lewis would have us believe in his letter to the Editor...

Profanity, deejays and dancehall music
THE EDITOR, Sir: IT IS a sad state of affairs, as this phenomenal monster called dancehall music has cast an indelible gloom over our music, including all its other genres - ska, rocksteady and reggae - which had placed Jamaican music on a pedestal...