Letters

The Editor, Sir: Is a slip always a slip? Everyone seems to produce slips of the tongue which are really windows to the mind.

The Editor, Sir:As I read your Letter of the Day titled 'Ellington is wrong again', I was extremely disappointed at the attitude expressed towards crime fighting in our country.

The Editor, Sir:I read the article 'The Shaming of Champs', on March 30, and I can assure you, as an ardent supporter of Champs and a past athlete myself from a rural school, I could never condone the behaviour of the Kingston College athlete.I have no...

When the argument for support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights is framed as a human-rights issue, thus giving it the right to co-opt children in its defence, it is palpably disingenuous.

I noticed from recent articles posted on the Internet that there are proposals to conduct polygraph examinations of police and government employees to deter corruption. Although the goal is commendable and achievable, the selection of the polygraph is not a good choice.

Although it has some good points, Dr J.V. Ford's letter published Thursday, April 22, is fundamentally flawed. The idea of a controlled don is a misnomer. It is laughable to think that a don can truly be controlled. Is it not clear that our current circumstance is due to the facilitation of garrison politics?

I am tired of having people propose the same things every day ... dismantle the garrisons, etc. and yet we all can see that this approach does not work. It does not take a smart man to see the statistical correlation between the number of 'gunmen' and notorious gang leaders killed by the police and the number of subsequent murders that occur in that particular locale.

According to the April 21 issue of the Gleaner, Phillip Paulwell is pushing for telephone number portability. Number portability would be beneficial to consumers as it would allow them to maintain the telephone number that they initially paid for, while seeking out the best plans and rates offered by any telephone provider.

Maurice Tomlinson of Jamaica AIDS Support for Life has accused the Jamaican Parliament of "wanting gays dead" because of Parliament's retention of anti-sodomy laws in the 2009 Sexual Offences Act.

The Editor, Sir:While I am alarmed at the rapidly mounting murder toll, your front-page headline leaves me wondering what I can do about it.I do not have the benefit of the statistics - where the murders are taking place, the motives behind the murders...

The Editor, Sir:Congratulations on taking a stand. The last time you did this you retreated in the face of criticisms from the ostrich brigade. Please, please continue to keep it in our faces until we rise up and insist "No more!"

The Editor, Sir:In his contribution to the Senate, Basil Waite charged that 1,500 students, or just over 16 per cent of the more than 9,000 who sought funding assistance from the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB) in 2009, were turned down.