LETTER OF THE DAY - The naïveté of our leaders
The Editor, Sir: Where problems are social in nature then it requires an understanding of why it occurs. Humans are guided most times by self-interest, a feature that influences the choices we make. If therefore we are to make right choices then our hierarchy of needs...
Use lottery to fund education
The Editor, Sir: When the Jamaican Government headed by P.J. Patterson gave a lottery licence to Howard Hamilton, a leading member of the PNP's National Executive Council, it was a cruel act of historical proportion, when we consider that in the United States...
Thanks Mr Mayor, but ...
The Editor, Sir: I note that Kingston Mayor Desmond McKenzie was moved to the point where he suggested renaming several roads after our successful Olympians. While I would like to commend him for the gesture, I would, at the same time invite him ...
Race hypothesis
The Editor, Sir: The awesome display of prodigious talent by Usain Bolt on the track in Beijing has generated a lot of discussion including the egregious assumption that Jamaican athletes possess a certain DNA that cause them to run faster...
Relics, Uncle Ato and Seb Coe
The Editor, Sir: We must be careful in our defence of Usain Bolt. I have heard many people saying that the Americans have done it in the past, and even that black people are exuberant; this is how we celebrate. This is misleading...
Extortion in another form
The Editor, Sir: I write this letter with a sense of utter disgust at the treatment being handed out to motorists who have to park in the downtown Kingston area. Mr Mayor please wake up. Extortion is not only from persons demanding money from store owners.
Hypocrisy over regional union
The Editor, Sir: The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) announced plans for economic union earlier this year and Paul Ashley did not utter a sound. Now that Trinidad has announced its intention to join the OECS he is screaming against it like a lunatic...
Assess JPs periodically
The Editor, Sir: I write to recommend that justices of the peace (JPs) be assessed periodically to ensure that they are performing to their fullest. I have witnessed documents that are unprofessionally certified, recommendations that are poorly worded...
Tears of joy
The Editor, Sir: As I watched the performances of our Olympic team, I failed to realise what was happening to me until my wife walked over and hugged me. Tears were streaming down my face without me being aware of it...
PM's comedy, nation's tragedy
The Editor, Sir: Prime Minister Bruce Golding's plea for gunmen to stop embarrassing Jamaica evokes a sense of weakness, akin to a five-year-old's ear-splitting cry for intervention from Mom after her big brother took away her ice cream....
PM struck right note
The Editor, Sir: I wish to express my pleasure in listening to our prime minister on television Sunday evening. To commence with, the length was ideal for viewership, just long enough with good content so as not to bore. Most important, however, he refrained...
Westmoreland PC must explain
The Editor, Sir: I have allowed time to pass to see whether someone would enlighten the public and also the writer of the article, 'Public access to all beaches', published in The Gleaner on July 29...
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