LETTER OF THE DAY - The apathy of the silent majority
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE PUBLICATION of a speech made on the recent presidential campaign-trail highlighted the speaker's lament over people 'losing their souls'. Coming as it did from a political venue where many of the bodies present were possibly wrapped u
No resort on the Peak!
THE EDITOR, Sir: IT IS instructive that there are no resorts on top of Grand Teto peak (U.S.), none on the banks of Loch Ness (Scotland) and none on top of Roraima (Guyana). These well-known places share at least one major quality...
Why 'big-ups' for PJ?
THE EDITOR, Sir: I FIND IT very difficult to understand my people. What is this lots of 'bigging up' for PJ, like he is God-given to Jamaicans? Then again, we are a unique and strange people. My wife and I left Jamaica for another Caribbean island.
Preserving our water resources
THE EDITOR, Sir: ON MARCH 22, the World Water Council concluded its fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City. Among the most salient points coming out of the forum was the reiteration of the fact that the world was now facing a water crisis.
Pleasant JNBS experience
THE EDITOR, Sir: I FEEL compelled to write to you to highlight a very pleasant experience that my husband and myself had at the Half-Way Tree branch of the Jamaica National Building Society. On Friday, March 17, we went to the branch in question...
About the condom
THE EDITOR, Sir: I COULD not have disagreed more with Dr. Peter Figueroa suggesting that children in school be taught how to use a condom. Children are sent to school to acquire a good education at the expense of their parents and taxpayers...
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