LETTER OF THE DAY - Marketing Jamaica for Chinese attention
The Editor, Sir: I am pleased to learn that Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is making serious inroads in establishing the framework for increasing the number of Chinese visitors to Jamaica. As reported, agreements have been made to increase airlift so as to make it easier....
French dying in Jamaica
THE EDITOR, Sir: With what some term a second colonisation by the Spanish in Jamaica, French is slowing and silently dying. Most educational institutions offer Spanish with fewer and fewer offering French as the years go by.
Voiding the Budget
The Editor, Sir: The Budget Debate is a critical exercise in outlining the measures by which the Government intends to raise revenue to fund its programmes and the business of the bureaucracy. The chief justice has interpreted the section of the Constitution of Jamaica dealing...
Cassava not the answer
The Editor, Sir: I congratulate Minister of Agriculture Dr Christopher Tufton on his maiden contribution to the Budget Debate Wednesday.His ideas are excellent. However, I disagree with any plan to introduce cassava as a staple of the diet of our people....
Plant more to feed the nation
The Editor, Sir: Today, with crime spiralling out of control and food prices running close behind, our current politicians are revisiting the vision of self-reliance that Michael Manley held some thirty plus years ago.
In defence of most teachers
The Editor, Sir: I am writing in reference to the letter written by Mr Harambe on April 17 entitled "Extra lessons linked to poor performances". I am a final year Business Education student, who recently had teaching practice at an urban high school in St Catherine...
Poor approach to economic growth
The Editor, Sir: The government and the private sector have taken a poor approach towards encouraging and fostering economic growth. The last administration was criticised frequently for failing to achieve substantial increases in economic growth over the last 18 years. ...
The right to be elected
The Editor, Sir: Mrs Marsha Millar (Letters, Tuesday April 15) is afraid that if she wants to go into Jamaican politics when she retires and comes back home from England a Jamaican court may tell her and her children that as the holders of dual British and Jamaican nationality...
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