Columnist wrong on Bush
THE EDITOR, Sir: IN RESPONSE to an article September 14,2001 by Daniel Thwaites, "The unthinkable can happen", he has made a few cogent points. He was however, so far from correct with (part of) his statement, "President Bush heard the news while in...
Requiem for a street lady
THE EDITOR, Sir: SINCE THE attack on the World Trade Centre, I have been haunted by the fact that we will never know how many persons have perished. Of the suspected victims one person stands out in my mind. Like the Twin Towers, she was a landmark on...
C&W and online billing
THE EDITOR, Sir: I WRITE in response to a letter published in your newspaper on September 17, which was headlined: 'Utility companies must find new means of contact'.
Teach patois in schools
THE EDITOR, Sir: I CONGRATULATE Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, Senator Burchell Whiteman, on his position that Jamaican Creole (Patois) can be legitimately used in the education system (Gleaner, September 15).
'Black' an unfortunate designation for terror
THE EDITOR, Sir: I REFER to Ian Boyne's article in the Sunday Gleaner September 16, 2001 entitled: "Making sense of terrorism" and I take personal offence to his allusion to last Tuesday's terrorist activities on the US as "Black Tuesday". In the...
Afghans cannot bear a strike from America
THE EDITOR, Sir: COUNTLESS INNOCENTS have died, a nation mourns, a world in sympathy. But is it too much to ask that Americans do not now make a bad situation worse by killing countless more innocents?
J'can missing
THE EDITOR, Sir: PLEASE GRANT me space in your widely read paper to inform all the friends of Alda Knight-Walcott and Hector Walcott, whose 37-year-old son is missing in the carnage at the World Trade Centre. He worked on the 83rd floor and has not been.
'We are a nation under attack'
THE EDITOR, Sir: I HAVE just read the report of the murder of three people, including a 14-year-old student, at the wake for another victim of murder by the gun, and I am angered and incensed by the sheer stupidity and ignorance of some of our people.
