LETTER OF THE DAY - Parents' support integral to children's literacy skills
The Editor, Sir: I must respond to a letter to the editor published in The Gleaner of June 30. I understand the writer's concern about non-reading parents and their relative inability to help their children learn to read...

Choose to buy local
The Editor, Sir: More has to be done locally to boost production. There is another side to local responsibility I'd like to focus on though. In a free trade world we can't expect not to import, if we hope to export...

What about hard work?
The Editor, Sir: What has happened to the concept of hard work, diligence and discipline equalling desired results and just rewards? What has happened to the fundamental human right of the freedom of choice?Is the Ministry of Education saying...

Analysing Jackson's music
The Editor, Sir: Thank you for your appetising psychological analysis of the late Michael Jackson, via his 'songs' (The Gleaner, July1).Over the years while he was enduring his legal persecutions - I use the term 'persecution' since...

Senator Falconer, my heroine
The Editor, Sir: I am disappointed by the tone of the letter in Monday's Gleaner by Ricardo Smalling, who criticised the presentation by senators Sandrea Falconer and Hyacinth Bennett on the sexual offences bill.I don't agree with Senator Bennett...