Jamaica Gleaner Letters
Published: Monday Friday | July 3, 2009
LETTER OF THE DAY - NHT and private purchases
The Editor, Sir: Martin Henry's article 'Real estate distortions' (The Sunday Gleaner, June 28) and Susan Gordon's article - '105 NHT properties hunting buyers' (The Sunday Gleaner July 27, 2007) are instructive and provide excellent background information... Read More...
The case for two shifts
The Editor, Sir: Shortly after the Golding administration took office, Minister of Education Andrew Holness started sounding off about building schools to replace the spaces currently occupied in the second shift of some high schools.... Read More...
Public servants priced out
The Editor, Sir: I am writing as a public servant who is gravely disappointed with the prices for the town houses and apartments constructed by the Jamaica Civil Service Association and National Housing Trust at Twickenham... Read More...
Parents should give support
The Editor, Sir: From personal observation, I have come to realise that after the Grade Six Achievement Test, some parents' interest towards their children's educational development seem to wane.I recently spoke to a teacher who had to 'rough up'... Read More...
ECJ is wrong
The Editor, Sir: I am in full agreement with the conclusion that we need fewer members of parliament and constituencies not more; however, I will look at it from a different perspective.The stipulated range of voters/population per constituency... Read More...
IMF return and economic restructuring
The Editor, Sir: I feel compelled to comment on the current debate surrounding Jamaica's possible future relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The history of the IMF's involvement in Jamaica is a painful one. Read More...
Non-discriminatory sex offence law
The Editor, Sir: I sympathise entirely with the letter writer 'Betrayed Wife', who said she was a victim of deception in that her husband cheated on her with another man and then brought home an illness to the matrimonial home that affected her... Read More...
An open letter to 'Betrayed Wife'
The Editor, Sir: We often get caught up in our own pain and our own feelings and think that policy and the law should respond likewise, but to do so would lead to chaos. Read More...
How to nab child molesters
The Editor, Sir: Although the legal age of consent in Jamaica is 16 for females and 14 for males, the act of having sex prior to such a legal age is a common practice. Read More...
