EDITORIAL - Jamaica's amazing contradictions
Among the more striking anomalies in Jamaica is that of having communities simultaneously saturated with churches and. figuratively, blood, from the crushing level of murders and interpersonal violence which stop short of fatality.

Tongue in cheek
The English language is as straightforward as Bernie Madoff or Sir R. Allen Stanford. One example will suffice: the words 'flammable' and 'inflammable' mean the same thing, whereas 'competent' and 'incompetent' are opposites.

Frustrating the poor, hard-working jelly man
The Editor, Sir: I am appalled by our government's callous disregard for citizens who show initiative. We seem to purposely and even go out of our way to frustrate the ambitions of our poor people. It is apparent to me that law-abiding people who want to do honest work and get by are always the brunt of government sanctions.

Issue: Non-Jamaican Commonwealth citizens in Parliament?
The Editor, Sir: Your recent editorial advanced the notion that the People's National Party's (PNP) decision to nominate someone with dual citizenship (albeit Canadian) is immoral and cynical.