Cleric declares 'why I will not vote' - MPs represent their party and not the people
The Editor, Sir: No Jamaican citizen has a voice in the direction of their affairs. We are disenfranchised and ostracised, alienated even, from any real representation in the decision-making of our life and future.
'Dis also happen a foreign'
The Editor, Sir: Now that my travels have taught me better, I'll be ready, with a well-oiled tongue and a bank of experience, to take on the next ignoramus who, in a criticism of happenings in Jamaica, utters the wretched words: 'dis would never happen a...
How relief cheque helped grandma
The Editor, Sir: My grandmother received a cheque recently for Hurricane Dean relief. She was very grateful and she celebrated the receipt of her unexpected money by going to the hairdressing salon and colouring her once grey hair to black.
Containing gov't expenditure
The Editor, Sir: I read with some interest your August 12 editorial entitled 'Two Different Strategies'. It comments unfavourably on the PNP's commitment to "containing government expenditure" which the editorial argues is "simply financial code for minimal social expenditure".
The Portia Factor
The Editor, Sir: The PNP election campaign has apparently been built solely around their new leader Portia Simpson Miller, aka 'Sista P', 'Mama P', to the exclusion, I think mistakenly so, of the party and its team.
Election tie possible
The Editor, Sir: Based upon the various polls that have been conducted surrounding the two major political parties and their respective chances in the upcoming general elections, there is a strong and growing possibility that there may be a tie.
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