LETTER OF THE DAY - For citizenship, loyalty is key
THE EDITOR, Sir: I HAVE found it a rather uncanny coincidence that it was on the very day that the chief justice made her ruling that Mr Vaz, who is a United States (US) citizen, was ineligible to sit in the Jamaican Parliament that the IOC...
Rice growing in Westmoreland
THE EDITOR, Sir: SOME 15 years ago, the Government of the Netherlands donated to Jamaica the equivalent of several millions of Jamaican dollars, along with the expertise of a number of Dutch personnel, to establish a rice-growing industry in the Westmoreland...
Food-security strategy needed
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE CURRENT challenge of increasing world food prices clearly shows us that we need to push for food security. With this, we need to increase domestic agricultural production and attract more youth into viable agricultural entrepreneurial ventures....
Monstrous mom
THE EDITOR, Sir: IT IS with sadness and anger that I write this letter about the published report on April 19 of a 49-year-old woman given two years for aiding and abetting the rape of her 13-year-old daughter. I find it quite disturbing that such a crime has been committed...
Divine solution the answer
The Editor, Sir: It must be very clear to us as Jamaicans now that none of the political systems we have is capable of changing our present crime problem. Time and time again, we have seen various organisations come up with plans to ease crime ...
Zacca rapped for school critique
The Editor, Sir: It is quite unfortunate that Christopher Zacca can make such a statement regarding the state of our education in Jamaica. While we cannot hide from the fact that there are areas that we need to work on, he must be careful in passing remarks ...
Gayness as perversion
The Editor, Sir: It never ceases to amaze me that so many defenders of homosexuality from outside Jamaica are adamant in trying to convince God-fearing Jamaicans to follow their filthy perversions. Such is the case with letter writers Claudia Walliston of London, England...
How to prevent a nation of dunces
The Editor, Sir: The recent attention that has been placed on education has provoked me to ponder a few thoughts. First, it's always interesting to note that whenever these statistics are shown, as the ones revealed by The Gleaner's presentation of the recent Caribbean Secondary...
Bob Marley a hero? Hardly!
The Editor, Sir: I have been reading about the efforts of a group of Jamaicans to name Robert Nestor Marley a national hero and must share my disgust. Brother Bob was a great musician and poet and contributed significantly to awareness of Jamaica internationally. ...
Light-bulb inquiry
The Editor, Sir: I attempted to reach an employee of the Cuba Eye Care Department of the ministry of health by phone last week to seek assistance for my grandmother, but the phones rang without an answer for the entire two days. Finally, I got a chance to speak...
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