The Editor, Sir:What makes any type of art form genuine? Is Michelangelo's David art, or Edna Manley's Paul Bogle genuine? The Fern Gully piece may be way over the top, and I have no clue of what the man may be expressing...
The Editor, Sir: The scrap-metal industry has come into focus recently in a number of ways. Agriculture Minister Christopher Tufton has called for a ban on the industry...
The Editor, Sir: Within the past week,there was the unfortunate story of my cousin and uncle who were ministering in a depressed community in Kingston early at night...
The Editor, Sir:Maurice Tomlinson's May 1 letter condemned the absence of sexual orientation non-discrimination specification in the Charter of Rights of Freedoms and alleged an obsession of some with "what consenting adults do in the privacy of their...
The Editor, Sir:Are we supposed to feel good because the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) got some money to pay off its self-inflicted bills? Is this some kind of a sick joke? Jamaica's football and the JFF have become nothing more than a 'push-around'.
The Editor, Sir:Senator Arthur Williams, state minister in the Ministry of Finance, has urged Jamaicans "not to lose sight of the economic benefits that can accrue from casino gaming".
The Editor, Sir: Once again, the Gleaner editorial of Sunday, May 2, has captured what many well-thinking educators and citizens have come to realise: leaders of the Jamaica Teachers' Association do not seem...
The Editor, SIr:"Now that she is no more, let all in the room who took her for a free ride show your hands." I am sure that, were that directive issued in the halls of power in Jamaica, there would be deafening silence among some prominent individuals...
The Editor, Sir:Here we go again, screaming over the poor grade-four reading and mathematics results, blaming everybody and everything but the teachers.
The Editor, Sir: When you review and analyse many things that happen in Jamaica and compare them with other countries, one would realise that Jamaicans are governed by different principles.
The Editor, Sir:With all the intellectual resources that the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) possesses I am disappointed that they have resorted to a strike action at this time.
The Editor, Sir: At a recent Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) public forum on the proposed Charter of Rights and Freedoms, David Wong Ken, attorney-at-law, reminded the audience that human rights were not gifts of the State but were the birthright of every individual.
The Editor, Sir: Having first-hand experience of the foibles of the scrap metal industry, I can totally agree with the Governments indefinitely halting all export of this so-called 'commodity'.
The Editor, Sir:I have been reading with much curiosity, the circumlocutions and convolutions continually tried by our Government to cover their misdeeds over the last several months.
The slaughter of five men in the middle of the night, by a dozen or more phantoms using high-powered machines, should be enough to rattle any civilised people into an uproar, yet most prefer to remain silent, paralysed with fear behind their security guards and Dobermanns, hoping that they will not become the next victim.
The Christopher 'Dudus' Coke extradition saga that has erupted in Jamaica is creating so much noise and sucking so much of the oxygen from the country, that no one can either hear or breathe with ease.
First of all, let me congratulate you for producing the Education 20/20 supplement. However, with the exception of the articles by Maxine Henry-Wilson and Moses Peart, the publication continues to promote what I have previously called "an exercise in national self-deception".
Does Mr Samuda, a senior politician, a man of consi-derable experience, and, one would presume, wisdom, really expect us to believe the cock and bull story he told about who hired Manatt, Phelps and Phillips?
The problem with the scrap-metal trade is not unique to that industry. There is an institutionalised system of dishonesty in Jamaica. This is the same problem farmers have been facing, and numerous other sectors of society.
As your publication facilitates a broad discussion on the Jamaican education system, let me again suggest that focus should be on prescription and remedy and not on symptoms. To this end, I offer the following.
Many Jamaicans voted for the JLP a few years ago because they wanted a change; they wanted honesty; they wanted transparency. Instead they have been fed lie after lie after lie.
