LETTER OF THE DAY - Focus on niche crops to replace sugar now!
The Editor, Sir: I have been following with interest the desperate attempt that our regional governments have been trying to make at delaying the inevitable removal of our preferential agreement with the E.U. regarding sugar. What perplexes me is that we have known for over 20 years...
Death penalty in the Bible
The Editor, Sir: Associate Pastor Daren S. Larmond, in a Gleaner letter, argued, "Death is not a penalty. Death is an easy way out" and asking, "why should we kill a man for killing a man?" He added the perennial adage that, "no evidence exists that capital punishment....
Phone talk
THE EDITOR, Sir: Many of your readers will have shared my exasperation at telephoning companies, particularly our utility providers, and being told, over and over, by a cheerful (sometimes foreign-sounding) recorded voice, to wait until an agent is available to speak with us.
Pension problems
THE EDITOR, Sir: NIS pensions are often short-paid because of unrecorded years of contributions paid to the NIS. These happen, in the main, because of employer delinquency and NIS deficiencies in administration. This exacerbates the suffering of contributing...
A stroll down memory lane
The Editor, Sir: Melville Cooke on 'Daddy' and 'Mummy Dearest' sent me down memory lane. Of course, before some of us were called mummy we used to be 'gal' - I was swept with the horror of it! When mummy came into play there was a jolt to the system.
Think, Rev Dick
THE EDITOR, Sir: The election season is often referred to as the silly season. It seems that some of us are so caught up with it that we do not realise that it has come to an end, particularly if the party we support did not win. Since the election, the Rev. Devon Dick...
Election promises
The Editor, Sir: I find the call from the Rev. Devon Dick in The Gleaner of Tuesday, October 9, for the resignation of Finance Minister Audley Shaw over the issue of promises made to the Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ) quite intriguing.
Parish health trusts mooted
The Editor, Sir: In view of Prime Minister Bruce Golding's strong views on community development and of his commitment to the Local Government Reform Programme which has as its major objective the involvement of local communities; and, in addition, the limited funds...
Barbaric society
The Editor, Sir: The act of deliberately murdering a four-month-old baby and a nine-year-old boy who was hiding in a cellar is nothing but barbaric. On hearing of this inhumane crime, I was grief-stricken, and so I believe it was with every law-abiding citizen...
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