LETTER OF THE DAY - Jamaica can't afford road-damage liabilities
The Editor, Sir: I note with interest and concern a reported call by Supreme Court Judge Ingrid Mangatal for the passing of legislation to make the Government liable for injuries to persons and damage to motor vehicles caused by the State's failure...
Hamilton beating around the bush
The Editor, Sir: I wish to take issue with my learned friend, Howard Hamilton, Q.C., on his invitation to Agriculture Minister Christopher Tufton to devise "some system" to collect mangoes falling from trees all over Jamaica and get them to hungry...
Ministry aiding lazy teachers
The Editor, Sir: The Ministry of Education can help to make its regulatory role so much more efficient if it would educate parents on the minimum standards of operations for schools. This could be done in a newsletter...
Small talk won't benefit PNP
The Editor, Sir: As I watch the news and listen to some call-in programmes, I wonder if this present PNP Opposition is opposing only for opposing sake.
Ms Grant a role model
The Editor, Sir: It was heartening to read Ms Vivienne Grant's tips on surviving high school, published in The Gleaner on Monday. As a young boy at Jamaica College in the early 1980s ...
Fuel tax good for our health
The Editor, Sir: When the honourable minister of finance announced the $8.75 petrol tax, it sent motorists screaming and calling for an immediate rollback. Now that the noise is dying down, we should, as a nation, take this news of the petrol-tax ...
Not clean enough for me
The Editor, Sir: In an effort to be more cost effective in this strained economy, I have switched from 87 fuel to purchasing E10. Before doing so, I did a thorough investigation from credible experts ...
The worst decision ever!
The Editor, Sir: Recent pronouncements that tax will be placed on reading materials previously exempt, and which was later clarified as only those under the leisure categories, is nothing but a retrograde step by the administration...
Commendable move, but ...
The Editor, Sir: Amid growing concern over the weak literacy skills of our students and the implications for crime and violence in the society, the Government has announced its intention to greatly increase the number of specialists dealing with the...
Baseless, inappropriate protests, Mr Crawford
The Editor, Sir: Someone needs to advise the People's National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) and its president, Damion Crawford, that the recent public anti-government demonstrations are both baseless and inappropriate at this time and do not serve...