LETTER OF THE DAY - Election returns: Has the Senate been misled?
THE EDITOR, Sir: IT HAS been reported on radio and television and in the press that in answer to questions asked by Senator Trevor Munroe, Senator Burchell Whiteman disclosed in the Senate on Friday, March 28, that more than half of the candidates...
Putting Iraq on the real estate block
THE EDITOR, Sir: ON READING the contribution by Candice Ward and Mathew Kopka, about the large multinational corporations' involvement in putting Iraq on the real estate block, these greedy people, including the top brass of the war party, like...
'We are only speaking the truth'
THE EDITOR, Sir: MR. PAUL Chong, writing in a letter to the editor appearing on Wednesday, March 26, 2003 suggests that the Jamaica Government is in the clarity of its stance against the unlawful U.S.-led invasion of Iraq "biting the hand that feeds it."
BBC a welcome alternative
THE EDITOR, Sir: SAID MARK Twain, "Since the truth is the most precious thing we have, we should all be very sparing in its use". His joke deftly reminds us that throughout history a goodly proportion of mankind has followed that precept with...
'No sympathy for Clifford'
THE EDITOR, Sir: I COULD hardly believe the articles in the newspapers last Sunday, March 30, 2003, the frenzy on the radio call-in shows yesterday, the "classic" interview by a former president of the Medical Association of Jamaica...
Noisy Kingston 20
THE EDITOR, Sir: ONE COULD easily agree that there may be a degree of "loudness" about every culture. What seems different about our culture, however, is that this "loudness" is lacking in control and is much more relevant...
'It's rough driving on Ja's streets'
THE EDITOR, Sir: SOMETIMES IN life one just has to admit that we will not be efficient in everything. We just have to be satisfied with the way we are and with whatever disability we may have.
A good deed by Sandals
THE EDITOR, Sir: ON SUNDAY, I watched with admiration representatives from Sandals Dunn's River feeding the street people in Ocho Rios. They did not just go to one central spot but drove around the market and all over searching to find them.
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