Jamaica Gleaner Letters
Published: Monday Tuesday | May 5, 2009
LETTER OF THE DAY - Encouragement for tax evasion
The Editor, Sir: On Friday, May 1, an excerpt from a speech made by the minister of finance, Audley Shaw, was carried on TVJ's late-night newscast. In that excerpt, the minister made two statements concerning the reintroduction of GCT on computers.... Read More...
Fuel-tax positives
The Editor, Sir: When the minister of finance announced the 8.75 per cent ad valorem tax on petrol, it sent motorists screaming and calling for an immediate rollback. Now that the noise is dying down because people... Read More...
Portia should walk the talk
The Editor, Sir: Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller has been presented as being very concerned about the affairs of the "poor and disadvantaged". As the self-proclaimed political voice of the poor... Read More...
New poverty, inflation data needed
The Editor, Sir: Yes, as Labour Minister Pearnel Charles insists, the minimum wage is the level below which no employer should go. And yes, as the prime minister pointed out... Read More...
Incomplete gas probe
The Editor, Sir:The investigative piece, 'Not so full of gas' by The Sunday Gleaner and a team from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Chemistry Department was a decent article, but, based on what I read, had inherent flaws. Read More...
'Dissing' the written word
The Editor, Sir: The Government is making a dreadful mistake in trying to levy a 16.5 per cent tax on imported books. Any act of taxation against intellectual property has the damaging effect of discouraging the free flow ... Read More...
An apology, for what?
The Editor, Sir: This letter is in response to an 'unfortunate' one from Christine Keene and Leon Wright, departmental representatives, Jamaica Civil Service Association, in the Ministry of Health, published May 1 in The Gleaner under the headline 'NAJ... Read More...
IJF - It's Jamaica's Fault
The Editor, Sir: While taxation measures and the mature presentations of Finance Minister Audley Shaw and Opposition Shadow Spokesman Dr Omar Davies have garnered much attention, the most important part of the Budget presentation should not be... Read More...
Nuclear power is not far-fetched
The Editor, Sir: The light-hearted treatment by some commentators of the leader of the opposition's recom-mendation to put nuclear energy on the table in our search for alternative energy only demon-strates their lack of awareness of the latest... Read More...
Aiding and abetting lazy teachers
The Editor, Sir: The Ministry of Education can help to make its regulatory role so much more efficient if it would educate parents on the minimum standards of operations for schools. Read More...
Waste of money
The Editor, Sir: I was appalled to read an article in The Gleaner, in which it was stated that Jamaicans had to travel from the rural areas to Kingston to renew their passports.This is a waste of taxpayers' money for any government still to be using this... Read More...
