LETTERS OF THE DAY - Looking at casino gambling ...
The Editor, Sir: Well the JLP Government has decided to roll the dice and gamble its hopes of economic turnaround on casinos. While the debate on legalising casino gambling has been mostly a moral one, my major concern is on more a pragmatic level. everywhere that casino gambling...
... and dual citizenship
In a separate letter Mr Duncan writes:In the book The Art of War, written by Sun Tzu 2,000 years ago, he tells of an army trapped in a valley facing an overwhelming force. The general of the trapped army ordered all the horses slain before the battle...
PM right on gay stance
The Editor, Sir: Prime Minister Bruce Golding must be commended for his unequivocal stance, during his Budget presentation, against slackening Jamaica's legal ban on buggery. Gays are already free to do whatever they want in their own privacy and the majority of Jamaicans still oppose...
Grow both crops
The Editor, Sir: Mr Hemming's letter on the potato was exactly right, but why can't we grow both potato and cassava in enough quanties to feed and export. There is no question that the potato is more easily grown and will give Janaicans a larger yield...
Risks of ackee and cassava
The Editor, Sir: There is no comparison between the risks associated with eating ackee to the unending risks of a diet high in cassava. Ackee is seasonal and is not consumed on the same level that flour is. When I was a little girl, I heard that if people ate ackee...
Caring the environment
The Editor, Sir: I wish Jamaicans would take better care of the environment in that beautiful country. I know plastic is convenient as is paper but they should not be discarded at the beach or in the sea.
On equity and cash
The Editor, Sir: Equity is not cash, and it is high time that those in the financial sector in Jamaica, who ought to know better, get their facts straight. Peter Bunting, in supporting the leader of opposition's claim that the National Housing Trust (NHT) is not illiquid...
No civility in the House
The Editor, Sir: I am sure that the Jamaican electorate expect that the 60 members of parliament selected by them will obey the rule of courtesy in all their deliberations in the House. Now more than ever, the youth of the nation must be able to have role models ...
Parliamentary privileges need review
The Editor, Sir: At some point in time the concept of parliamentary privilege may have been sacrosanct. This was when our nation was young; many of us were less aware and the Internet and other trappings of the Information Age did not exist. ...
Disgraceful road conditions
The Editor, Sir: The letter in The Gleaner regarding road conditions on the highway being built in Portland is true. I went to Portland last Monday. The road between Annotto Bay and Buff Bay is a disgrace. Having driven there last year September...
Navy Island for casinos et al
The Editor, Sir: I have always advocated that we should establish our casinos and our prison population offshore. I propose that the Government purchase the 1,600 acres Navy Island property; dedicate 500 acres to the establishment of a prison village with a police station...
Feeling shame for Zimbabwe
The Editor, Sir: As I watch the events unfolding in Zimbabwe in frustration, another emotion is also surfacing: shame. As are most Jamaicans, part of my ancestry is in Africa. I am ashamed, not of the behaviour of Robert Mugabe, whom I consider a despot...
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