Letter of the day - If Haiti fails, who is next?
THE EDITOR, Sir: MARCUS GARVEY made it clear, and Martin Luther King Jnr. concurred, that wherever a Black person struggles, all Black people struggle. It is a global struggle.
Less talking, more action
THE EDITOR, Sir: THERE ARE those among us who never miss an opportunity to castigate the US and its leaders for their self-serving foreign policy.
Missed opportunity
THE EDITOR, Sir: WITH THE recent development in Haiti, I was looking forward to the CARICOM to take a proactive stance, but instead they went begging at the UN and the United States.
Ja should have led the way
THE EDITOR, Sir: LET ME start by saying that the situation in Haiti is regrettable and would have been just as regrettable had Mr. Aristide remained in power.
Ja should send troops to Haiti
THE EDITOR, Sir: ACCORDING TO the Miami Herald, Chile has promised about 300 army troops to be sent to Haiti for peacekeeping. Chile can send 300 soldiers to Haiti, but Jamaica, with 2500 Regular Force soldiers and 1000 Reserves, can't?
Education: Let's get it right
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE TOTAL budgetary allocation for education in the 2003/2004 budget was $23,674,453,000. This figure includes both recurrent and capital (A+B) expenditure. This amount constituted nine per cent of the approved budget.
Time to set higher values
THE EDITOR, Sir: A MAN can be murdered for just a bowl of soup, or for just staring at a person who doesn't liked to be stared at.
A lesson for CARICOM
NOW THAT that a naive CARICOM has been conned by the neo-cons in Washington (pun intended), one would hope that the lesson has been learnt by our eminent Caribbean Prime Ministers.
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