Jamaica Gleaner Letters
Published: Monday Saturday | April 18, 2009
LETTER OF THE DAY - They are donations, not pay cuts
The Editor, Sir: In any labour compensation system, it is necessary to establish the authority for setting the pay rates as much as it is important to determine the mechanism for such rates in the Jamaican... Read More...
Unacceptable silence re 'lost' mail
The Editor, Sir: Within days of the publication of my letter of December 15, 2008, complaining about a delay in the delivery of a parcel through the postal service to my mother in New York, I received a note signed "for the postmaster general" advising... Read More...
Public policy and squatter settlements
The Editor, Sir: I have to commend highly The Gleaner editorial of April 17 on the matter of squatter settlements. The issue arose from the news report that Minister of Housing Dr Horace Chang recently declared in Parliament that as many as one-third of Jamaica's population currently live as squatters! Read More...
The wonderful Susan Boyle
The Editor, Sir: What is the real lesson to be learned from the sudden appearance of Susan Boyle, the ordinary, unassuming woman whose singing talent in a contest in Britain has taken the entertainment world by storm? Read More...
CCTV for buses
The Editor, Sir: Having just read that the Jamaica Urban Transit Company will be placing police personnel on their buses in an effort to reduce crime, I am wondering why they don't fit closed-circuit TV cameras on these vehicles, for the following reasons: Read More...
PM's pay cut
Why is the public being made to think that this pay cut was a history-making gesture by the current prime minister? As a country, we keep missing the opportunity to start conversations about making the linkages with our past and present, so we can make... Read More...
