LETTER OF THE DAY - Lower standards is bad policy
The Editor, Sir: Prime Minister Bruce Golding in addressing the 28th General Assembly of Ministers and High Level Authorities on Housing and Urbanisation in Latin America and the Caribbean, in Montego Bay, stated his intention to lower the standards...

Stop the bird shooting!
The Editor, Sir: To my disgust and disappointment, there appeared in the newspapers the usual annual notice of the bird-shooting season in Jamaica. Tragically and strangely, this notice is put out by NEPA...

Partners in the sugar industry
The Editor, Sir: Sugar-cane farmers over the years have worked hard and long, seeking growth and personal benefits from the industry but, with all the promises, they have unfulfilled dreams.The unit cost of growing sugar cane is pretty high...

Why Jamaicans are fearful
The Editor, Sir: As a boy growing in James Hill, Clarendon, I was the one who my grandmother would always send to church every morning to buy a loaf of bread or sometimes 'half a bread' to drink with a cup of orange leaf tea for breakfast.

No retroactive rental tax
The Editor, Sir: The Government has procrastinated in enacting the amendment to the law to tax housing allowance wholly, and must give due consideration to taxpayers in not making the adjustment retroactive.It is unfortunate to make payroll adjustments...

When walkers, joggers take over
The Editor, Sir: I propose that the residential community of upper Widcombe Road, leading up to Mountain Springs, and the surrounding roadways, be officially declared a national public-exercise park.

An apology maybe, but for what?
The Editor, Sir: I agree with Devon Dick that the behaviour of those parliamentarians was unbecoming. But I'm not so sure that he is being fair in using his letter to call on KD Knight for an apology to Dorothy Lightbourne...

Objectives met in town hall meetings
The Editor, Sir: Your letter of the day (July 17) from Michael Moyston contains some basic misunderstandings, which might explain the facile conclusions to which his argument leads him.He attended both town hall meetings in Montego Bay and Ocho Rios...

Use public forums to explain IMF
The Editor, Sir: For many Jamaicans, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a bad word. Most of us believe that that the IMF, coupled with terrible management by respective governments...