LETTER OF THE DAY - Budgetary support, the key to police success
The Editor, Sir: The following are the main reasons why I do not think the likeable Derrick Smith should have been changed for Colonel Trevor MacMillan. I only hope for the nation that he does not behave like a commissioner of police, which is difficult for him not to do...
Distressed at standard of English
THE EDITOR, Sir: I teach at a local university and I am very distressed by the standard of written English the students present. To say it is generally poor is to understate the case. In any group of 10 essays, there will probably be no more than one written by a student...
'Jamaica must feed itself'
The Editor, Sir: This is an open letter to the minister of agriculture - I wish to suggest a small way in which the above message could be commu-nicated to the future citizens of our land - our schoolchildren. The Rural Agriculture Development Agency...
NAJ unrealistic
The Editor, Sir: President of the Nurses' Association of Jamaica (NAJ), Edith Allwood-Anderson, has been vociferously and stridently demanding that the minister of finance, Audley Shaw, grant a 100 per cent salary increase for the public-sector nurses...
Groups at odds over Garvey birthplace
The Editor, Sir: Your newspaper of Saturday, May 10, 2008, Page C4, carried an item "Chamber lobbies to replicate Nat'l Hero's birthplace". Our heritage foundation was instrumental in having 32 Market Street, St Ann's Bay, accorded a national heritage site.
11-y-o pleads for community
The Editor, Sir: I am an eleven-year-old who attends the Genesis Christian Academy in St Elizabeth. I have two major concerns that Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Education Minister Andrew Holness should know about.
Focus on role of fathers
The Editor, Sir: As we once again focus our attention on the spiralling crime rate, my mind goes back to a recent conversation I had with a gentleman in the context of a downtown church setting. His thesis was that all of Jamaica's problems were caused by fatherlessness....
Price affecting pepper process
The Editor, Sir: I refer to a news item on TVJ on Wednesday, May 14, in which a pepper farmer was complaining of not being able to sell his peppers and had stopped maintaining the crop out of sheer frustration.
Earning divine intervention
The Editor, Sir: I have been following with interest the talk about divine intervention being needed in the nation, with much emphasis to the need for prayer and fasting, and union between State and Church. I would like to bring focus to a particular promise...
Changing the social climate
The Editor, Sir: I believe if the social climate in Jamaica is changed, many of the negative things happening in the country would cease. First, young people in secondary schools must see the possibility of getting jobs or being trained to create jobs...
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