The body count and children
THE EDITOR, Sir: IT IS really quite frightening to watch the news each evening and listen to the body count for the day. Having recently returned from Spain where I was completing post-graduate studies, this fact is even more striking to me.

PRIDE projects and audits
THE EDITOR, Sir: PRIDE PROJECTS are incorporated as Industrial & Provident Societies. The Industrial & Provident Societies Act requires that those societies have annual audits.

A school says thanks
THE EDITOR, Sir: IT IS with great pride and happiness that I write to commend publicly the many persons who have been of tremendous help to the Mt. Moriah Infant and Primary School.

The beginning of a new trend
THE EDITOR, Sir: THANK YOU for the privilege to express my gratitude to our people of Jamaica for the recent display of maturity in the exercise of their democratic responsibility and free speech.

Racial disrespect
THE EDITOR, Sir: ON SEPTEMBER 30 riding on the No. 21 bus I overheard a misunderstanding between two women commuters - a Negro and an Indian. Reaching boiling point of her temper my sister dark skin said: "Coolie do not have any talk in this country."

Those kind cops
THE EDITOR, Sir: OUR DAUGHTER was born at UHWI in February of 1997.

Searching for family of Robert Owens
THE EDITOR, Sir: OUR MOTHER'S name was Dorothy Owens. She lived in Barbican, migrated to the US in the 1970s and she died in Jamaica in 1976. Her father's name was Robert Owens and he was from Nain in St. Elizabeth.