Introduce a crime tax
I AM sure I am not the only Jamaican who was horrified opening up my Sunday Gleaner and seeing the number of murders in Jamaica. I believe that it is time this new Government makes this the No. 1 priority issue to deal with for the next two to three...

Investigate conductor's death!
WITH PAIN in my heart I am writing to you from the United States about the death of my brother, Miguel Reid (Mickey), which was allegedly caused by the negligence of someone who left a JUTC public passenger bus unattended. I demand that the...

NWC responds to disruption of supply
THIS IS the NWC's response to a letter to the Editor from a Miss Grant: My name is Karen J. Brown and I am Community Relations Officer for the Central Region of the National Water Commission. I noticed your letter to the Editor in The Gleaner of...

Black, whites and exclusion
Rebellion or Redemption! It seems the Caribbean Blacks are still seething about the episode of the US and British blacks asking whites to leave the conference room during the get together in Barbados. What is the big deal here? The white groups have...

Unfair treatment of Lee Boyd Malvo
LEE BOYD MALVO, the 17-year-old youth implicated in the sniper shootings in the USA, is being unfairly treated, if one should consider his juvenile status and the circumstances under which he found himself in this foreign country, under the controlling...

Cheap comedy programmes
FROM UP here it seems that Mr. Wilmot Perkins has cast a spell over the Jamaican intelligentsia and the 'man in the street.' Since the end of the election campaign it appears that the local papers have been publishing, almost daily, Motty letters...