Category: Letters

Dear Mr Golding: All the best as you steer the bus of state as “de Driva”. It is with much consternation that I now hear Continue reading

The real, critically perplexing issue for the US government and its bailout (or rescue) is not the bailout as such (although it is a major, Continue reading

There are no words that I can find to describe how I feel about the murder of 11-year-old Ananda Dean. All the news about who Continue reading

Dear Antonn, I find your article limited in factual basis and biased towards un-informed common thinking that resists change. Further, you have presented no real Continue reading

“We have a crime problem that’s the second highest in the world and so we need a strong, decisive national security strategy,” said [Jamaica’s prime Continue reading

A quality system for the mass education of the population is the most important requirement for national development.  Our outdated education system is fundamentally flawed Continue reading

I write in reference to the standard of the secondary education system in Jamaica. As a university lecturer, and former CAPE (Caribbean Advanced Proificiency Examination) Continue reading

Can I express my disappointment with members of the Jamaican Language lobby group? I appreciate the scholarship and passion of people like Kadene Porter and Continue reading

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding equated the action of school principals who have proposed and/or implemented what many consider “exorbitant” auxiliary/supplemental or development fees Continue reading

I read the ‘article’ by Franklin Johnston which appeared on the 31st July in the Jamaica Observer with mounting horror and incredulity. How is it Continue reading