LETTER OF THE DAY - What limits for a strong Opposition?
The Editor, Sir: IN 1844, Benjamin Disraeli declared, "No government can be long secure without formidable opposition." I agree! Most humans can be persuaded or corrupted if the time and conditions are right. On Sunday, September 16, I watched People's National Party...
Bruce, messenger of change
The Editor, Sir: EVER SINCE the 1990s Mr. Orrette Bruce Golding has been articulating the need for the reform of Jamaica's political system and has been particularly concerned with the level of the political tribalism which has been polarising the society.
The PNP's legacy
THE EDITOR, Sir: WHILE WE welcome the new Government led by Mr. Bruce Golding into the office, alas, before he properly takes his seat, we must point out to him and his team "don't waste any time to say the People's National Party (PNP) mash up the country...
Not prodigal son
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE LETTER by reader Lorna Gooden in today's Gleaner (September 22), which you have elevated to Letter of the Day, and reads in part, "and the one who left for the wilderness, returning as the prodigal son is now Jamaica's eighth Prime...
Reflecting on the political journey
THE EDITOR, Sir: REFLECTING ON the political journey of Jamaica through the past two decades, it dawned on me that as citizens, we should express our gratitude to the leaders of the nation that have steered us through the many and varied tasks and experiences of those years....
The schooling of our youths
THE EDITOR, Sir: LET ME first offer sincere congratulations to the new Jamaica Labour Party government with the will of the Jamaican people and an amicable and justified Opposition which will open its doors to a new breed of thinking and philosophy to carry it over to the modern...
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