Jamaica Gleaner Letters
Published: Monday Wednesday | August 12, 2009
LETTER OF THE DAY - Produce more to improve conditions in Jamaica
THE EDITOR, Sir: I FEEL compelled to express my views through this medium in the hope that persons who have the power to lead the change will take note.With the decline in earnings from our bauxite industry and other sectors... Read More...
Abortion and our spiritual leaders
THE EDITOR, Sir: LET ME put in my small piece on the issue of abortion. As one who had an abortion over 40 year ago, I am forever haunted by my child who could have been whatever he could have been... Read More...
We should think for ourselves
THE EDITOR, Sir:"We have in our country too many people who don't think and reason for themselves, are told something and given it and accept it and spit it out by rote." This was reportedly said by Professor Maureen Samms-Vaughan and appeared... Read More...
The Queen is not a foreigner
THE EDITOR, Sir: I disagree with the Rev Devon Dick referring to the Queen as a foreigner.This Jamaican was born at Half-Way Tree, just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Read More...
Water woes
THE EDITOR, Sir:I AM a citizen of the Gregory Park/Cedar Grove Estate in Portmore, and I am very concerned about the fact that there have been constant lengthy water lock-offs inside the community at least once per week, sometimes for two to three... Read More...
Defending the Constitution
THE EDITOR, Sir: ELEVEN YEARS ago, then Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, overcome with joy at Jamaica's historic qualification for the World Cup, declared a national holiday, an act that he could not legally do. Read More...
Unfairly noisy
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE NOISE Abatement Act has various issues associated with it. At present, Section (3) of the act, which came into effect in 1997, states that "no person shall, on any private premises ... Read More...
