Letter Of The Day - Moulding worthy characters
THE EDITOR, Sir: HOW ANY individual expects to be treated by his fellowman is not only a matter of reciprocity but rests largely on how that fellowman has been socialised. Over the past decade or two, the responsibility for the socialisation of...
The roast breadfruit mentality
THE EDITOR, Sir: WE ARE told that we were fortunate to be enslaved and brought to the Caribbean to be Christianised. Now, Dawn Ritch is glad for the institution of British chattel slavery, because it had the effect of creating societies in Jamaica and...
Love yourself, Dawn
THE EDITOR, Sir: THIS IS an open letter to Dawn Ritch. You have been a journalist and "contributing" to debates on Jamaican Society via The Gleaner for some time now. You need to love yourself, your culture and your history first before you...
Incensed!
THE EDITOR, Sir: I AM incensed at the story in The Sunday Gleaner of September 28, 2003 where a man who called a judge 'sexy' was subsequently arrested by a police officer.
A disconnected nation
THE EDITOR, Sir: WHILE READING the lead story of The Sunday Gleaner September 28, "Drivers skirt toll" and the other related stories, it became crystal clear how disconnected we are as a nation.
Seeking some inspiration
THE EDITOR, Sir: SOMETIMES WE just have to forget the negative things happening in our society, and seek some inspiration. There is no greater inspiration to us as black people than those who had fought against racial barriers.
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