LETTER OF THE DAY - Saluting the private sector
THE EDITOR, Sir: The Private Sector Appreciation of Jamaica is my way of recording the responses to various appeals from different segments of the society, such as the following:Good Day, Sir: "I'm asking Corporate Jamaica to get on-board". I hear that famous cry ...
Strong backing for the Government
THE EDITOR, Sir: I STRONGLY agree with the Government in stepping up on crime prevention strategies; it is long overdue. Criminals have come to think that they can hold society at ransom and do just about anything and get away with it...
Responding to child abuse
THE EDITOR, Sir: I MAKE reference to an article in the Saturday Gleaner of July 26, under the feature item 'Issue: face to face with child abuse'. I would like to respond to Sharon, the writer, directly. Sharon, you just have to keep going until someone ...
Government must lead from the front
THE EDITOR, Sir: JAMAICA'S CRIME problem is no joke. Our country has the second-highest per capita murder rate in the world, with a population of 2.7 million and averaging about 1,500 murders annually. Who is going to be left? And the larger question is, who will be spared...
Balancing Creole and Standard English
THE EDITOR, Sir: IN LIGHT of the swirling debate on the relevance of the Bible being translated to Jamaican Creole, I wish to direct your readers to a book reviewed by Paul H. Williams in The Sunday Gleaner, June 22, that should help in putting some rational perspective...
Shaw praisedon tax intake
THE EDITOR, Sir: I MUST use this venue to congratulate the minister of finance on the great job he has undertaken to collect outstanding taxes owing to the Government of Jamaica through his amnesty programme, in collaboration with the Internal Revenue...
Shortcomings of anti-crime effort
THE EDITOR, Sir: ITS LONG experience in the field enabled the International Jamaica Council of Human Rights to see through the apparent concession by the prime minister in reducing the proposed detention period from 28 days to three days....
Strong measures vs human rights
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE FORMER minister of national security during the previous People's National Party administration once stated that the crime situation in Jamaica needed "strong and resolute measures'' to combat those who are wreaking mayhem in the society...
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