LETTER OF THE DAY - Heritage Week target: broken families and missing heroes
The Editor, Sir: here are our heroes? Who are our heroes today? Finding a hero in Jamaica today is probably more difficult than asking the cow to jump over the moon.The Jamaican children grew up hearing about Marcus Garvey, Alexander Bustamante and Norman Manley...
What criteria for honours?
The Editor, Sir: What is the criteria for an award from the National Honours and Awards committee? This question pops up every year when the ceremony is held. It has become a farce that should be discontinued. What can be said of a ceremony where Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd...
Commish as icon of hope
The Editor, Sir: The constitutional process for appointing and dismissing members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is vested solely in the office of the Police Service Commission (PSC). An advertisement placed in The Gleaner in search of a Commissioner of Police...
Why don't we till the soil?
The Editor, Sir: I am tired of reading about food prices going up and the government cannot do anything about it. When are we going to decide that we must manufacture sugar for our own consumption instead of waiting in line to satisfy those in whatever union they fall.
A pantheon of heroes
The Editor, Sir:Jamaica has celebrated National Heroes Day by recognising heroes who have excelled in various fields, undertaken brave deeds to save the lives of others at risk to their own lives, for good and faithful services.
Errors in magisterial recount reports
The Editor, Sir: In two editions of your newspaper dated, Wednesday October 10, and Friday, October 12, there is significant inaccuracy in the reporting of the status of the magisterial recount for Eastern Hanover. The report stated: 'The RM ...
A story of courage - and Bishop Gibson
THE EDITOR, Sir: Orville Taylor's recounting of the accomplishment of Bishop Percival Gibson and Monsignor Gladstone Wilson contributed to the filling of a vacuum. That vacuum created by neglect of many great Jamaican lives. A vacuum contributory to low self-esteem wherever...
The court or the people
The Editor, Sir: The central issue in regard to the recent elections is not the closeness of the results, but the frightening possibility of the court having to reverse the will of the people in respect of three constituencies where the winners are said to be subject....
Protecting our heritage
The Editor, Sir: We are now in the process of celebrating our heritage but I am left to wonder if Jamaicans are really serious about protection. We do not seem to realise that without a past we have no future and this leads to the question ...
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