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Jamaica Gleaner Letters
published: Monday | April 5, 2004

SANTA - reaching out to the less fortunate
THE EDITOR, Sir: YOU THINK of the word 'SANTA' and the first thing that comes to mind is Christmas and gift-giving. There is a group operating in Jamaica that is called SANTA (Seeing a Need and Taking Action)...

Making the quiz more challenging
THE EDITOR, Sir: I HAVE been watching this 35th anniversary season of TVJ's Schools' Challenge Quiz with great interest since it began earlier this year.


Pleased at UWI budget slice
THE EDITOR, Sir: WE NOTED with cautious optimism the fact that the "government has allocated $30.2 billion to education this fiscal year, a $677 million increase over the last year." (The Gleaner, April 1, 2004).


Warning for exploitative leadershp
THE EDITOR, Sir: ARISTIDE WAS democratically elected, but he did not govern democratically. The police were poorly equipped when Aristide's chimeres were armed with heavy weapons.


Do better for pensioners, please
THE EDITOR, Sir: IN OR about 1999-2000, we as government pensioners were granted an increase of five per cent ­ 10 per cent.


Honouring obligations
THE EDITOR, Sir: ON MONDAY, March 29, I went to Liguanea post office to redeem two pension vouchers only to see a sign on the glass which read 'No Money for pensions'.


Wake up people!
THE EDITOR, Sir: RECENTLY, I heard Mutty Perkins pose a very important question: 'what did Bruce do as founder/president of the NDM to give anyone comfort that he could successfully lead the JLP?'...


Millicent Bernard
THE EDITOR, Sir: I AM writing this letter to thank Millicent Bernard, The Head of Literacy Department at the Christ The Redeemer Human Resource Centre in Seaview Gardens.


Getting my children back
THE EDITOR, Sir: DUE TO uncontrolled circumstances of being unemployed, the children I was fostering had to be returned to the care of Children's Services Division.


Congrats to Edwin Allen
THE EDITOR, Sir: I HAVE sent the following letter to the principal of Edwin Allen High School, Mr. E.L. Ricketts...














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